Crystal Ball: Looking Ahead to 2025 

About Lynn Clements

As Director of Audit & HR Services for Berkshire, Lynn Clements oversees Berkshire’s Pay Equity, HR Services and Audit Defense practices. Throughout her career, Lynn has provided clients with strategic insight and practical compliance and risk management guidance, including in hundreds of government investigations before OFCCP and EEOC.  

With 25 years of experience in the EEO and affirmative action space -- including nearly eight years working as a former senior official at the EEOC and OFFCP -- Lynn brings a unique blend of regulatory knowledge and compliance experience to every project she oversees. Lynn is a regular presenter of management and employee training at all levels of organizations and has testified before Congress and federal enforcement agencies on EEO and pay equity issues. A regular presenter at national and local industry conferences, Lynn was a founding member of the NILG Advisory Board, a faculty member at the Institute for Workplace Equality and co-authored the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Fall 2017 Report on Recommendations for Reform of the OFCCP. 

About Matt Nusbaum 

Matt Nusbaum consults federal contractor employers regarding the nondiscrimination and affirmative action requirements enforced by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) of the U.S. Department of Labor. He also regularly consults on other related labor and employment law requirements.

Matt has more than nine years of experience as a practicing attorney counseling and representing employers on matters before the OFCCP and other federal, state, and local workplace regulatory and enforcement agencies.

Matt provides a full range of company-specific consulting advice on workplace compliance requirements including, but not limited to conducting federal contractor jurisdictional assessments, structuring, developing, and implementing fully compliant affirmative action programs, preparing OFCCP desk audit submissions and developing strategic responses to specific follow-up requests for information, preparing and advising employers throughout all phases of the OFCCP audit process, including negotiating with OFCCP to resolve alleged violations, conducting statistical disparity analyses for reductions in force and other employment-related decisions and data, developing training programs for HR professionals and management personnel regarding obligations as government contractors, and developing and implementing compliant diversity and inclusion programs.