5C00 Review of Section 503 and VEVRAA AAPs

Contractors with approved FAAP agreements must continue to comply with Section 503 and VEVRAA obligations by: (a) creating and maintaining Section 503 and VEVRAA FAAPs for the same functional or business units that are covered by their Executive Order 11246 FAAPs; or (b) creating and maintaining establishment-based Section 503 and VEVRAA AAPs for each of their establishments. Contractors must inform OFCCP which method they will use to comply with its Section 503 and VEVRAA affirmative action obligations during the FAAP negotiation or certification process. The method chosen by the contractor will be recorded in the FAAP Agreement. Under either arrangement, contractors must make their VEVRAA or Section 503 establishment-based AAPs or FAAPs available for review by employees at each of their establishments.

When contractors with approved FAAP agreements are scheduled for compliance evaluations, they must also submit their Section 503 and VEVRAA FAAPs for the functional or business unit under review. If a contractor uses establishment-based AAPs to comply with Section 503 and VEVRAA, it must submit to OFCCP its AAPs for all establishments within the functional or business unit under review. The CO will review all Section 503 and VEVRAA establishment-based AAPs as described in FCCM Chapters 1 and 2.

During the review, the CO must ensure that all employees covered by the functional or business unit are included in the Section 503 and VEVRAA AAP submissions. A contractor using a FAAP for Section 503 and VEVRAA should apply the Section 503 utilization goal on a job group basis, using the job groups in their Executive Order 11246 FAAP. The contractor may apply the VEVRAA hiring benchmark, at its discretion, to each of its job groups or to the functional unit as a whole. A contractor using establishment-based AAPs for Section 503 and VEVRAA, even though it has an Executive Order 11246 FAAP, should apply the Section 503 utilization goal to job groups created in accordance with 41 CFR 60-2.12 or, if it has a total workforce of 100 or fewer employees, by applying the goal to its workforce as a whole, if it chooses to do so. The contractor may apply the VEVRAA hiring benchmark, at its discretion, to each of its job groups or to the establishment as a whole.