Quick Hit: On December 15, 2020, OFCCP
announced the release of Directive 2021-02,
Certainty in OFCCP
Policies and Practices (the Directive ). The
Directive generally reaffirms a number of certainty
initiatives previously announced in agency publications, such as
timely and efficient progress of compliance evaluations,
professional conduct by OFCCP staff, and neutral scheduling of
compliance evaluations. The only additional commitments made by the
agency in the Directive are to conduct ongoing reviews of its
policies and practices to ensure they are clear and certain to the
stakeholder community, and to provide a process by which
contractors can seek clarification or disclosure of a policy or