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Employers Don’t Have to Report Pay Data on EEO-1 Form

8/30/17

By: Paul H. Derrick
As we previously reported, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee put the future of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s revised Form EEO-1 in doubt by inserting a rider into the annual budget proposal that would prohibit the EEOC from spending any funds on its plan to collect pay data from employers on the new form. The Office of Management and Budget now has taken things a step further.
Yesterday, OMB informed the EEOC that all efforts to implement the pay data reporting requirements must immediately cease. The revised EEO-1 would have required all businesses with 100 or more workers to submit pay data by gender, race, and ethnicity on their forms. OMB’s directive to the EEOC to stand down, however, is based on its concern that “some aspects of the revised collection of information lack practical utility, are unnecessarily burdensome, and do not adequately address privacy and confidentiality issues.”
The traditional portions of the EEO-1 form that collect data on race, ethnicity, and gender by occupational category will remain in effect. Employers should plan to comply with the reporting requirements by the filing date of March 2018. Instructions are at: https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/2017survey.cfm.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Paul Derrick at pderrick@fmglaw.com.