• Federal compliance data show that proposed rules on training and hiring veterans and disabled workers for federal construction contractors is a solution looking for a problem, according to an analysis sponsored by Associated General Contractors of America.
• Eights years of data show that the Office of Contract Compliance Programs found possible discrimination in 0.02% of complaints to which it responded between 2004 and the first half of this year. In audits of contractors, the rate was 0.01%
• “The real problem is that our stagnant economy has left too many workers of all types unemployed for too long," said Brian Turmail, a spokesman for AGC, which is fighting the proposed hiring quotas.

From the report:

A review of government enforcement data finds no justification for costly and complex new rules governing the hiring of veterans and people with disabilities being proposed by the Office of Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).  ...