What Federal Contractors, Workers Want for the New Year

Now that a new political leader has been installed at the Labor Department’s contractor auditing office, business representatives and civil rights advocates have a number of items on their wishlists they’d like to see fulfilled by the agency moving forward.

Ondray T. Harris earlier this week began serving as director of the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which audits about 1 percent to 2 percent of roughly 200,000 federal contractor facilities annually for workplace affirmative action and nondiscrimination compliance.

With Harris now in place, any plans to change the agency’s enforcement priorities and policies can begin, but it ...