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Are you a federal contractor? If so, listen up. There could be changes coming that could require you to have goals for the number of disabled employees in your ...

Federal News Network Staff

September 7, 2010 4:50 pm

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Are you a federal contractor? If so, listen up. There could be changes coming that could require you to have goals for the number of disabled employees in your company.

Federal contractors might have to give hiring preferences to people with disabilities. The Labor Department has posted a notice of potential rulemaking that seems to indicate that federal contractors might face placement goals for hiring disabled workers.

It’s called the Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination Obligations of Contractors and Subcontractors. But what exactly will this mean for disabled workers?

George Kettner is the President of Economic Systems, which conducts management assessments for the public and private sectors. His company put together a report for the Labor Department called Modernizing the Affirmative Action Provisions of Section 503 VEVRRA Regulations.

He joined Chris Dorobek on The Dorobek Insider.

Click here to see a summary of the change. Click here for volume one and here for volume two. For more information, check out the conversation Chris had with David Cohen, president of DCI Consulting Group on the same topic.