Below is the text from OFCCP’s email announcement. We’ll post more information soon.

New Employee Notification Requirements for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors:

OFCCP Will Present Webinar on Compliance Fundamentals

Under a new Department of Labor regulation to be published tomorrow, beginning on June 19, 2010 Federal contractors and their subcontractors are required to post notices informing employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). On June 3, 2010, Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) will present a webinar for Federal contractors and subcontractors to provide them with information about how to comply with this new regulation. For more information about the webinar subscribe to OFCCP’s E-mail updates at http://www.dol.gov/OFCCP/.

These regulations implement Executive Order 13496, signed by President Obama on January 30, 2009, and require federal contractors to agree to post the required employee notice and to agree to insert provisions in their subcontracts that require their subcontractors to post the employee notice as well. The employee notice that must be posted and the contract provisions that must be inserted into Federal contracts and subcontracts can be found at 29 C.F.R. Part 471 Appendix A.

The notice to employees, required by the new regulation, informs employees about their rights under the NLRA to form, join and assist a union, and to bargain collectively with their employer. The notice provides examples of unlawful employer and union conduct that interferes with those rights and indicates how employees can contact the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal agency that enforces those rights, with questions or to file complaints. Contractors that violate the Labor Department’s regulations requiring employee notification of these rights may be subject to sanctions, including suspension or cancelation of the contract.

Contractors and subcontractors must post the employee notice conspicuously in and around their plants and offices so that it is prominent and readily seen by employees who are covered by the NLRA and who engage in contract-related activity. In particular, contractors and subcontractors must post the notice where other notices to employees about their jobs are posted. Contractors and subcontractors who post notices to employees electronically must also post the required notice electronically, which requires posting a link to the Department of Labor’s website containing the employee notice where they customarily place other electronic notices to employees about their jobs. Where a significant portion of contractor’s workforce is not proficient in English, contractors and subcontractors must provide the employee notice in languages spoken by employees, and the Department will provide translations of the employee notice that can be used to comply with the physical and electronic posting requirements.

Contractors and subcontractors may obtain the required poster in any of three ways. The Labor Department will print posters and provide them to Federal contracting departments and agencies for supply to contractors and subcontractors. Contractors and subcontractors can request posters from the Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards and OFCCP field offices, and contractors and subcontractors can download the poster from http://www.olms.dol.gov.