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AAP Consulting

When it comes to building out your company’s affirmative action plan (AAP), you want to turn to someone who knows this business inside and out.    

Clients feel secure outsourcing to Berkshire because each AAP is handled in-house by professionals with decades of OFCCP experience. We’ll work closely with you and your team, walking you through every step of the process – from understanding your workforce data analytics, to communicating your plan results to our ongoing, consultant-backed analysis of industry trends and regulatory changes. 

We guarantee that every AAP that we develop is prepared using statistical methods that are 100% compliant with OFCCP regulations. 

Our review process includes three levels of quality checks to ensure that you receive an accurate plan, verifying and validating your data and checking for consistency. 

If you choose to outsource with us, Berkshire will help you prepare the AAPs required of federal contractors and subcontractors covering minorities and women (Executive Order 11246), Individuals with Disabilities (IWD) Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, and Protected Veterans (Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act or VEVRAA). Our service includes development of required reporting elements and narratives, and a review of results to assist you in understanding the steps to successfully implement and communicate your plan. 

Berkshire’s proprietary service delivery portal, the Berkshire Client Portal (BCP), empowers you to easily view and interpret your results, securely exchange files with your dedicated consultant, and seamlessly download and share reports based on each AAP. 

We also offer consulting services to Construction contractors who need to comply with OFCCP regulations. 

AAP Consulting services include:

  • Development of job group analysis and organizational profile 
  • Determining recruitment areas and feeder groups 
  • Conducting internal and external availability calculations 
  • Determining incumbency vs. estimated availability 
  • Developing placement goals for the current plan year 
  • Evaluating goal attainment from the previous year 
  • Generating data analysis reports for Individuals with Disabilities (IWD) and Veterans 
  • Calculating IWD utilization and VETS hiring benchmark results 
  • Calculating adverse impact on personnel actions
  • Access to the Berkshire Client Portal, or BCP, where you will be able to view your results via cutting edge data visualization, download reports, and more!

AAP Software

For the ambitious professional looking to independently prepare their company’s AAP, Berkshire offers balanceAAP, the gold star standard in affirmative action planning software.  

This secure, cloud-based application gives you much more than traditional software; it gives you the power to create a 100% technically compliant plan—right from the web.  

balanceAAP lets you easily create your plan(s), run availability vs. employment analyses and use adverse impact analyses to check for potential discrimination in personnel activities. You can also create an organizational profile and generate customized narrative documents with embedded data and reports—covering all required components of an AAP, including requirements for Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans. 

Your subscription to balanceAAP also includes access to the Berkshire Client Portal, Berkshire's proprietary service delivery portal, which features cutting edge data visualization, new downloadable reports, and a resource library for AAP professionals.

balanceAAP can be used for organizations responsible for just one or multiple AAPs. Plans can be prepared by single or multiple concurrent users. Your remote facilities can prepare their own plans without purchasing separate software licenses and without the hassles of software installation or hardware upgrades.   

balanceAAP Also Includes FREE Access to balanceREACH! 

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Audit Support

Seeing your company’s name on an OFCCP audit scheduling list and knowing an audit is pending can be intimidating. But at Berkshire, helping clients through this daunting process is one of the things we do best. Over the last couple of years, we’ve helped hundreds of clients like you navigate government investigations – boasting a compliance closure rate well above the OFCCP average of 80%.

Berkshire provides polished electronic submission packets to all clients who seek OFCCP audit support during their plan year. Our consultants will provide an in-depth analysis of your plan and recommend key next steps to protect you in the event of an audit. During the audit our consultant will partner with you to provide guidance, keep you informed of your rights, correct addressable issues, and lessen any negative impact of OFCCP findings. And our success rate speaks for itself.

Audit support services include:

  • Audit plan preparation designed to limit corporate liability, and OFCCP inquiry
  • Detailed plan summary with highlighted areas of concern and recommendations
  • Research and support data for areas of adverse impact and OFCCP requests, including running analysis by favored group and more detailed analyses of each step of your process
  • Review of current practices and recommendations for complete compliance
  • Assist you in responding to government follow-up requests
  • Prepare your organization for on-site visits, including witness preparation

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EEO-1 & VETS-4212

There are two additional reporting requirements for federal contractors, the EEO-1 and VETS-4212 report. The EEOC requires federal contractors to submit an EEO-1 report annually for all covered establishments. This report includes information on the number of employees at each establishment, categorized by race/ethnicity, gender, and EEO-1 category. 

Additionally, the Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) require federal contractors to submit the VETS-4212 report annually. These reports include information on the number of Veterans employed and hired at each establishment, reported by EEO-1 category and Veteran status. OFCCP routinely requests a copy of these reports as part of their compliance review of federal contractors. 

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EEO-1 & VETS-4212 services include:

  • Determining the proper filing method for multiple establishment employers 
  • Parsing data by establishment 
  • For the EEO-1 reports, creating the Establishment report(s) and the Headquarters report 
  • Berkshire can submit these reports
    electronically, on behalf of a company,
    through the EEOC and VETS websites. 

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