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Federal Contractor Misconduct Database (FCMD)
The federal government routinely awards contracts to companies with
histories of misconduct, including
…
contract fraud and other
violations. POGO believes that providing this website will help to
improve contracting decisions and increase public knowledge of how
the government spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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Labor Discrimination at Los Alamos Lab (1998)
“The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP)… announced it… reached a $625,000 settlement with the [University of California-operated] Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) resulting from an investigation of discrimination against Hispanic workers in a 1995 layoff at the Los Alamos, New Mexico facility…OFCCP made an initial finding that Los Alamos failed to follow its own layoff criteria, which resulted in Hispanic employees being terminated at a statistically significant higher rate.”
- Misconduct Type
- Labor
- Enforcement Agency
- Labor
- Contracting Party
- Energy
- Court Type
- Civil
- Disposition
- Settlement
- Date of Settlement
- 5/13/1998
