The Department of Labor asked the Office of Administrative Law Judges to compel a federal contractor in Minnesota and its Washington subsidiary to provide paperwork and information to complete a compliance review.
Rosemount Inc. of Chanhassen, Minn., and Rosemount Specialty Products LLC of Wenatchee, Wash., have been asked to provide the information for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs of the department to review the firms’ equal employment opportunity policies, according to a Sept. 9 news release.
“Rosemount’s repeated failure to provide documentation necessary to complete a required compliance review is a clear violation of their legal obligations as a federal contractor,” OFCCP Regional Director in Chicago Carmen Navarro said in the release.
The Labor Department asked the court to terminate the company’s federal contracts if they fail to provide the information, Navarro said, according to the release. The agency will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure equal opportunity protections are followed by federal contractors as compliance is not optional.
Rosemount was asked July 2, 2021, to submit the necessary data on its affirmative action programs and supporting documentation. Rosemount failed to provide the supporting information and only submitted the company's policy and process statements about its equal opportunity procedures at the end of August 2021, according to the release.
