Dive summary:

• The contracting industry has been mounting an attack against a federal contracting office proposal to have the percentage of veterans and disabled people in each contractor's workforce match each group's percentage of the U.S. population – currently 8% and 7%, respectively.
• Now, the director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Patricia Shiu, told a federal-news radio station in Washington, D.C., that the office is setting goals, not quotas, and that no penalties or punishment is waiting for contractors who fall short of the goals.
• The goals apply to each job category for companies with more than 100 employees and to the workforce as a whole for smaller firms.

From the article:

"Part of the reason why we needed these regulations is that neither my agency or contractors — unless they do this voluntarily — really know who they have in their workplace," Shiu said. "I can say that although there are some contractors who are leaders, who have tried to measure the number of people with disabilities in the workplace, many contractors don't know. ...