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Employers briefed on federal contract compliance

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Manufacturers laughed nervously Tuesday as they heard about one local company that got an audit notice from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

It was during the holidays, so the receptionist simply laid the notice on top of the boss's desk with the rest of the mail. There the notice sat until the boss returned weeks later. It took some fancy footwork by the company's lawyer to postpone the audit and, even then, the company only got a week's extension.

G. Thomas Harper, a Jacksonville lawyer, is used to getting companies out of such scrapes. He talked to members of the Volusia Manufacturers Association on Tuesday about how to comply with government requirements on affirmative action plans and filing Equal Employment Opportunity reports.

"I've found many companies in this area don't know the requirements," he said.

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