EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION

Mission Statement


	The Employers’ Association serves regional employers in their efforts to maximize performance; providing people management information, research, training and consulting expertise.

Vision Statement


	To be the regional association of choice for employers interested in maximizing their Human Resources and Organizational Performance.

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Affirmative Action Planning

Customized Consulting and Training

Your Convenience	You choose the schedule and location.
Your Culture	Using a team-authored approach, each program is customized.
Your Savings	EA Members save on every program.
Your Success	Practical, research driven consulting gives you the tools for success.

		EA consultants have the technical resources and knowledge needed to navigate the maze of Affirmative Action Planning requirements.
		Without being time consuming or costly, EA consultants work with you to create real-world solutions tofit your needs.

With Support from EA Consultants, you can navigate through the following AA steps:

Preparing Affirmative Action Plans is not about filling in forms or copying boilerplate language. Many well-intentioned organizations believe that proclaiming the spirit of equal opportunity fulfills their obligations. Not so. AA compliance is different and it’s technical.

It’s about crafting your statistics and narrative to represent your organization in the best possible

way during audit.

It’s about developing compliant recordkeeping and documentation practices to defend your

actions.

Its serious business, very specialized, and you need to know the law.

A few of the Affirmative Action services offered:

Develop defensible Plans or audit existing Plans.

Provide ongoing counsel during audits.
Conduct mock compliance audits

Create and interpret all required statistical reports required in Plans.

Develop and interpret compensation data to identify pay disparities.

Provide technical guidance on modifying HRIS systems to comply with recordkeeping demands.

Other support and guidance as needed.

OFCCP Takes Aggressive Stance – Are You Ready?
Between 2001 and 2005 OFCCP:

Collected $159 million from randomly-audited employers for over 58,000 applicants and employees affected by discriminatory practices or inadequate recordkeeping and documentation practices.
Conducted 230 Corporate Management Reviews — with an increase of 39% in the last four years.
Referred 50 cases for enforcement litigation—with a 100% increase in the last four years —securing an additional $30 million for applicants and employees.
Conducted 23,000 audits. While the number of audits is down, it is significant to note that financial remedies resulting from audits are up. OFCCP is promising this trend will continue and the number of audits will increase.

Remedies for non-compliance are financial. A record $45.2 million was collected in 2005 — an increase of 56% and 42% over 2001 and 2000, respectively. Our best advice is, “Don’t wait.” Prepare your Plans now before the audit letter arrives. Consider this advice the same as that of your accountant who tells you to file your taxes, document your actions and know the law. Do this and hope you are never audited. But if you are, you’ll be in much better shape than if you had not!