Dive Brief:
- New regulations about keeping data on hiring disabled workers are now in effect for businesses, including contractors, that do work under federal contracts.
- Contractor have to invite job applicants to speak up if they have a disability and keep records about that, have to keep data on how many apply and how many get hired, and they are supposed to shoot for having 7% disabled people in the workforce.
- Associated General Contractors lobbied to have the rules toned down, but still challenged the final version in court.
Dive Insight:
AGC says it has not decided yet whether to appeal the judge's ruling in favor of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. The organization had argued that the rules were arbitrary and would be a burden on small businesses. AGC tried to get a federal judge to put them on hold, but the court said that the reasoning OFCC gave for its decisions were plausible.
