How will OFCCP evaluate the SSEGs that contractors create under the Voluntary Guidelines and submit to OFCCP as part of a compliance evaluation?
For those contractors who opt for the voluntary self-audit submission under the Voluntary Guidelines, and construct in good faith Similarly Situated Employee Groups (SSEGs) that meet the 30/5 rule and cover 70 percent of the workforce, and the analysis is conducted on a SSEG-by-SSEG basis, OFCCP will accept the SSEGs definitions provided by the contractor without further review. OFCCP will not request or conduct a pooled analysis to challenge these findings to include a greater portion of the workforce for review. The Voluntary Guidelines require that the contractor conduct non-statistical analyses on the compensation of those individuals excluded from the SSEGs. If the SSEGs that meet the 30/5 rule do not encompass 70 percent of the workforce, OFCCP will review their components to determine whether the definitions seem reasonable. OFCCP understands that at some facilities the combined effect of the size of the work force and the type of work conducted may produce few groupings that wo
