Executive Order (EO) 11246 prohibits federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against employees and applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, or national origin. To ensure that obligation is met, certain contractors are required, by EO 11246 and related laws, to prepare and maintain an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP). An AAP is a comprehensive, written self-auditing document that generally requires detailed and complex statistical analyses regarding the makeup of the contractor’s workforce and its efforts to proactively recruit, hire, train, and promote women, minorities, disabled individuals, and veterans to ensure that all such individuals have equal opportunities in employment.
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