Alissa Horvitz
Josh and Alissa have been practicing OFCCP law together since 2003 – first at Morgan Lewis, then at Littler, and finally in their own law firm that they started in 2015. As a firm, Roffman Horvitz focuses its practice in the legal space where equal opportunity law intersects with data, statistics, and analytics. Josh and Alissa focus primarily on advising and overseeing the preparation of affirmative action plans and representing clients in various matters before the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) across all six OFCCP regions, preparing for and defending OFCCP audits and onsite visits, responding to OFCCP information requests, conducting privileged pay equity analyses, and conducting privileged audits of contractor applicant tracking systems and recruiter dispositioning. In addition, they also advise clients on EEO-1 and VETS-4212 reporting requirements, as well as emerging state pay requirements like those California and Illinois as well as state- and local-based AAP obligations like those in Madison Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New Jersey. Josh and Alissa are members of the Washington Metro ILG and the Baltimore ILG, and they enjoy presenting at other ILG meetings in person and virtually.
Wednesday, July 31
Workshop 3
A Walk Through the Scheduling Letter & Itemized Listing with Recommendations on Annual AAP Processes and Recordkeeping
Alissa Horvitz and Joshua Roffman, Roffman Horvitz, PLC
Advance preparation is key to a successful OFCCP audit. If contractors can begin to build in slightly more robust practices in their AAPs now, these processes will pay huge dividends towards putting the desk audit submission together more easily, and what the contractors submit will present a strong picture of compliance. But without more proactive guidance from the agency, many are at a loss to understand what they should be preparing or submitting. Having submitted responses to the new scheduling letter and watched some struggle to assemble everything in 30 days, the presenters will offer their thoughts on each paragraph of the itemized listing as to what the OFCCP wants, what are options for submission responses and how to get ahead of your preparations for an audit. Attendees will also hear about issues or pitfalls contractors should avoid in their submissions and how to get ahead of the kinds of follow-up that is coming from various OFCCP offices.
