Federal contractor civil rights watchdog places staff on leave amid layoff threat

Federal contractor civil rights watchdog places staff on leave amid layoff threat

Civil rights advocacy groups and lawmakers characterized the U.S. Department of Labor’s OFCCP restructuring as a serious blow to civil rights enforcement.

Chicago employees of federal contractor oversight agency put on paid leave: ‘It’s open season out there for all these contractors’

The Chicago staffers of the U.S. Department of Labor’s federal contractor oversight agency were put on paid administrative leave this week, along with workers in most other regions of the country. The staffers put on paid leave are employees of the agency’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which investigates federal contractors to ensure they comply with nondiscrimination laws. Employees in the OFCCP’s national enforcement branch …