What is an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP)?

What is an AAP or “Affirmative Action Plan”?

An Affirmative Action Plan or Program is a management tool designed to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO). Affirmative Action Programs contain a diagnostic component which includes a number of quantitative analyses designed to evaluate the composition of the workforce of the contractor and compare it to the composition of the relevant labor pools.*

Affirmative Action Programs also include action-oriented programs.*

If women and minorities are not being employed at a rate to be expected given their availability in the relevant labor pool, the contractor’s affirmative action program includes specific practical steps designed to address their underutilization.*

Effective affirmative action programs also include internal auditing and reporting systems as a means of measuring the contractor’s progress toward achieving the workforce that would be expected in the absence of discrimination.*

Based upon the above points, is your Affirmative Action Program doing its job? If you have any doubts, contact Corporate Compliance Associates Inc. Affirmative Actions Solutions to discuss your AAP and other compliance needs.

* From the Code of Federal Regulations, Special Edition of the Federal Register, Vol.41, Chapter60, As of July 1, 2002.