{"id":568,"date":"2020-04-07T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=568"},"modified":"2022-06-05T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:28:47","slug":"ofccp-issues-national-interest-exemption-to-facilitate-covid-19-response-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/ofccp-issues-national-interest-exemption-to-facilitate-covid-19-response-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"OFCCP Issues National Interest Exemption to Facilitate COVID-19 Response Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USDOL\u2019s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/OFCCP\/National-Interest-Exemption-Memo-Coronavirus-Relief-Efforts.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">temporary exemption<\/a>\u00a0from certain federal contracting requirements. For the period from March 17-June 17, 2020, new federal contracts to provide COVID-19 relief efforts will be exempt from several obligations under Executive Order 11246; the Vietnam Era Veterans\u2019 Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA) as amended; and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. See the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/agencies\/ofccp\/faqs\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ sheet<\/a>\u00a0for more information on which contracts are covered and which obligations are and are not temporarily lifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the USDOL\u2019s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued a\u00a0temporary exemption\u00a0from certain federal contracting requirements. For the period from March 17-June 17, 2020, new federal contracts to provide COVID-19 relief efforts will be exempt from several obligations under Executive Order 11246; the Vietnam Era Veterans\u2019 Readjustment Assistance Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}