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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is planning on releasing job creators’ confidential employee data to accommodate a FOIA request from a left-leaning organization. Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to OFCCP Director Yang to lambast the agency’s imminent release of sensitive employee data that is normally protected.
 
In Case You Missed It via the Society for Human Resource Management, days after Foxx’s letter to OFCCP, the agency announced it has re-opened the period for employers to submit objections to the confidential data being released.
 
 
OFCCP Extends Deadline for Objections to EEO-1 Disclosure
By David J. Goldstein © Littler
February 16, 2023
 
On Feb. 14, the federal government announced that it was again extending the deadline for employers to file objections to the disclosure of their EEO-1 data in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative Reporting. The deadline for submitting objections is now March 3.
 
…[I]n response to the FOIA request, [OFCCP] is planning to produce confidential information that is ordinarily protected from disclosure pursuant to a statutory exemption. To prevent their confidential EEO-1 data from being disclosed, employers must file written objections with the agency.
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As Education and the Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx stated in a letter to OFCCP's director last week, it "appears that many employers were not aware of the pending FOIA request at OFCCP. The agency must do a much better job of informing federal contractors, especially smaller employers, about their rights and obligations. I am also aware that OFCCP has not provided information to all relevant employers about what data will be disclosed in response to the FOIA request. These employers could not determine whether to submit objections because they did not know what information OFCCP would turn over."
 
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