Dive summary:

• It appears that federal hiring regulations that increase federal contractors' paperwork about their efforts to hire the disabled and veterans are headed for promulgation despite arguments advanced by the construction industry about the burden they will impose.
• The rules written by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) have moved on to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval, which is required before federal regulations can take effect.
• Contractors will have to track information about all disabled and veteran workers and applicants, and Associated General Contractors has argued that the rule-makers greatly underestimated what that is going to cost federal contractors.

From the article:

AGC also participated in a report that demonstrates OFCCP’s own enforcement data, which states that “discrimination against protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, especially with regard to hiring, is not a frequent finding that OFCCP finds and may not support the major shift in policy that the proposed regulations would necessitate.”  ...