OFCCP Provides More Transparency to Federal Contractors
As part of ongoing efforts to increase transparency of preliminary findings with federal contractors, and to achieve consistency across regional and district offices, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a new policy directive to standardize the use of Predetermination Notices.
A PDN is a letter OFCCP uses to inform federal contractors of the agency’s preliminary findings of employment discrimination. This directive establishes a uniform protocol for OFCCP staff to follow across all of its regions for using PDNs in both individual and systemic discrimination cases. Prior to Directive 2018-01, OFCCP reserved use of the PDN for systemic discrimination cases and permitted regional and district offices discretion in whether to issue the PDN prior to issuing a Notice of Violation.
