After multiple delays, on October 31, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced the opening of the 2022 EEO-1 data collection portal. All employers with 100 or more employees, and federal government contractors and subcontractors (“Contractors”) with at least 50 employees and a federal government contract of $50,000 or more are required to file
***August 18, 2021 Update: Following an EEOC extension, employers now have until Monday, October 25, 2021 to submit their 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 filings. The EEOC has stated this is the final extension and there will be no further extensions***
***June 28, 2021 Update: Following an EEOC extension, employers
As the March 31, 2020 deadline for submitting 2019 EEO-1 reports came and went without the EEOC opening its reporting portal, many employers have been awaiting the EEOC’s announcement of when it would begin accepting the reports. On May 7, 2020, the EEOC gave employers the answer, announcing that it is delaying collection of 2019
Employers have been furiously working to prepare their EEO-1 Component 2 submissions by the September 30 deadline. Some employers who underestimated the task have asked us whether the EEOC’s submission portal will remain open after September 30 in case they are unable to complete their submissions in time. Until now, our response has been “maybe.”
Employers would be forgiven for feeling figurative whiplash from all of the developments surrounding the EEO-1 in recent weeks. After understanding they would not have to submit pay data with their EEO-1 submissions (referred to as “Component 2 data”), in a series of rulings. Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated the obligation. Since then, employers have been
On April 29, 2019, the EEOC issued the following statement regarding the recent EEO-1 developments:
Notice of Immediate Reinstatement of Revised EEO-1: Pay Data Collection
EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit Component 2 data for calendar year 2018 by September 30, 2019, in light of the court’s recent decision in National Women’s Law Center