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July 18, 2023

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Agency Again Extends the 2022 EEO-1 Reporting Deadline

This month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission extended the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 or EEO-1 reporting deadline to a tentative date in Fall 2023. The EEOC previously announced it would begin accepting EEO-1 reports in mid-July. However, this deadline now extends past the summer. Thus, employers have a little more time to prepare for filing ahead of an official deadline. The EEOC us...

CA & NYC Announce Pay Transparency Laws

November 1, 2022

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As current government agencies work to expand employee rights, pay transparency laws are spreading across the nation. While many current pay transparency laws are state-level, major cities are moving forward with their regulations. These pay transparency laws require employers to be “transparent” with salary ranges and benefits. Explicitly, depending on the area, these laws could require employ...

May 3, 2022

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EEOC Allows Limited Extension to EEO-1 Component 1 Report Submission

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced a special “failure to file” extension to their EEO-1 Component 1 Report submission deadline. Though the main deadline of May 17 remains in place, the additional brief extension allows late filers some leniency. Employers will need to make the deadline to remain compliant with EEO-1 Component 1 Report obligations. The EEO...

March 29, 2022

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EEOC Releases its 2021 Annual Performance Report

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released its 2021 Annual Performance Report (APR). The APR contains the EEOC’s program results and management challenges for the fiscal year 2021. Also contained within the APR is a list of the EEOC’s findings from evaluations and investigations. Overall, it presents the current results of EEOC efforts in its broader mission to pr...

January 11, 2022

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EEOC Will Discontinue EEO-1 Type 6 Establishment List Reports

On January 6th, 2022, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced they will discontinue EEO-1 Type 6 Establishment List Reports. Specifically, the discontinued items affect employee data reporting for establishments with less than 50 employees. Indeed, the announcement follows the agency’s efforts to modernize EEO data collections by improving the quality of collected data...

EEO-1 Data Collection Deadline Extension Announced

August 23, 2021

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After delaying the EEO-1 data collection deadline in June, the EEOC has announced another data collection deadline extension. Previously, the deadline for submitting both the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data was August 23rd, 2021. However, on August 23, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) moved the deadline to October 25th, 2021. Previous Updates to EEO-1 Data Collection On...

EEOC Announces EEO-1 Data Collection Deadline Delay

June 29, 2021

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After delaying the 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection opening, the EEOC has also postponed the EEO-1 data collection deadline. Previously, the deadline for submitting both the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data was July 19th, 2021. However, on June 28, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) moved the deadline to August 23rd, 2021. Earlier this month, the EEOC also issued new g...

December 8, 2020

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EEOC Launches Resource to Track Employment Trends

On December 2nd, 2020, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) launched a new interactive tool called “EEOC Explore.” EEOC Explore is a data query and mapping tool that gives users the most current aggregate EEO-1 data publicly available. Users can analyze aggregate data associated with more than 56 million emplo...

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D.C. Court to Decide EEO-1 Pay Data Mandate

January 21, 2020

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The EEO-1 Pay Data Collection saga continues and will resurface Friday before a panel of the U.S. Court Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The Obama-era Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) originally ordered companies to submit pay data, broken down by sex and race, as part of their annual EEO-1 Report. (The EEO-1 is an annual survey that requires all private employ...

EEOC Pay Data of No Use, Says Federal Contractor Watchdog Agency

November 25, 2019

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In a notice published today in the Federal Register, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) deems the two years of pay data being collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) of no use because "it does not expect to find significant utility in the data." The pay data collection was instituted in 2016 by the Obama EEOC as a vehicle to enforce gender and ...

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