EO 11246 in Context: What Federal Contractors Need to Know About OFCCP’s Recent Invitation

From HR Unlimited, Inc.

July 07, 2025

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EO 11246 in Context: What Federal Contractors Need to Know About OFCCP’s Recent Invitation

 

The newly appointed Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has sent an email, June 27, 2025, inviting federal contractors to voluntarily report  how they have wound down their compliance with Executive Order (EO) 11246. The letter asserts that EO 11246 encouraged discriminatory practices such as race- or sex-based quotas and implies that the regulation was misused by contractors nationwide.

We believe this characterization is inaccurate and risks undermining decades of lawful, effective compliance efforts by federal contractors who faithfully upheld nondiscrimination principles.

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