![]() ![]() This, in turn, should result in a workforce that is highly qualified and appropriately representative of the broader population, which should help federal contractors and subcontractors comply with the laws and regulations administered by OFCCP. This MOU emphasizes the parties’ intent to explore how individual contractors have successfully implemented and appropriately used apprenticeship programs as affirmative action and equal employment opportunity tools to help develop a pipeline of diverse workers. ![]() In this regard, the MOU contemplates the parties exploring compliance challenges experienced by contractors, identifying options for minimizing and eliminating operational, organizational and attitudinal barriers that contractors may have experienced or believe may be obstructing affirmative action and equal employment opportunity in contractors’ workplaces, and developing proactive and innovative solutions to eliminate those barriers. This MOU envisions OFCCP and the NILG coordinating at the national level, and NILG facilitating coordination between OFCCP and local ILG chapters. The MOU, therefore, is a vehicle for exchanging information, obtaining feedback, and receiving advice from contractors. The parties are entering into this MOU with the specific and mutual goals of working together to support contractor education and training enable voluntary compliance with OFCCP’s regulations and minimize, to the extent feasible, the cost of compliance by contractors. OFCCP administers Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 503), and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA). The parties recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to promote voluntary compliance by employers that are covered federal contractors and subcontractors ("contractors") with their mandatory obligations under the laws administered by OFCCP. This Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") is made and entered into by and between the United States Department of Labor’s ("DOL") Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") and the National Industry Liaison Group ("the NILG"), collectively referred to as "the parties." ![]()
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