On April 15, 2025, in response to Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, the EEOC filed an Information Collection Request (ICR) with OMB requesting what it classified as a non-substantive change to remove the option for employers to voluntarily report non-binary data for
On the Horizon: New Standards for Collecting and Presenting Race and Ethnicity Data
As organizations are preparing and filing the 2023 EEO-1 Data Collection reports, (deadline is June 4th) there’s a change on the horizon for future reporting.
For the first time in over twenty-five years, in March, 2024 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a set of proposed revisions to Statistical Policy Directive…
OFCCP Contractor Portal to Open April 1
OFCCP has updated its Contractor Portal website with details for this year’s certification cycle.
Per the website
Beginning April 1, 2024, federal contractors will be able to certify the status of their AAPs for each establishment and/or functional/business unit, as applicable. The deadline for certifying compliance is July 1, 2024.
OFCCP has shifted the opening…
Breaking News: OFCCP Posts List of Contractors Whose EEO-1 Data Will Be Released on February 8, 2023
In an attempt to give contractors a final opportunity to object to release of their EEO-1 data, OFCCP has posted a list of contractors for whom the Agency will release the reports in response to the FOIA request filed by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
OFCCP’s e-mail message states:
To ensure the accuracy of…
OFCCP Announces Notice of Widespread Request for Contractors EEO-1 Reports and Opportunity to Object
According to OFCCP, on June 2, 2022, the Center for Investigative Reporting sent OFCCP a request for the disclosure of
. . .Type 2 EEO-1 reports for all federal contractors, including first-tier subcontractors, from 2016-2020….
The Center for Investigative Reporting, and other persons and organizations, have a history of requesting EEO-1 reports for various…
EEO-1 Reporting Deadline Expected To Now Be July 2021
In an announcement (EEOCdata.org) that flew under the radar and has, yet, to appear on the EEO-1 reporting webpage, or EEOC’s home page, EEOC now says the filing deadline will be in sometime in July. When in July? EEOC had not said:
The EEO-1 Component 1 data collection will open at the end of
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UPDATED: EEO-1 Portal Still Not Open for 2019 Filing, EEOC Continues to Seek Approval to Collect Race and Gender Data through 2021
As an update and a clarification to the below post we have learned from EEOC that there is not currently a deadline in place for submission of the 2019 EEO-1 reports. In fact, EEOC currently does not have authority to collect 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 data.
Since the advent of Component 2 pay data reporting…
Checking In On EEO-1 Reporting
While it feels like we just finished the EEO-1 reporting season, the time is here again to start preparing for filing of the “traditional” annual EEO-1 survey. As it has for years, EEOC will again this year look to collect race and gender data from eligible employers. Component 1 of the EEO-1 (not to be…
EEOC Seeks Court Permission to Deem Pay Data Reporting Complete
In the next chapter of the pay data reporting saga, the EEOC has filed a Motion with the court seeking an order “determining that the EEO-1 Component 2 data collection is deemed complete.” The EEOC is reporting that
as October 8, 2019, 75.9% of eligible filers had submitted Component 2 data.
EEOC previously suggested…
Update: EEO-1 Component 2 Portal to Remain Open
In its most recent required status report to the court, filed September 27, 2019, the EEOC reports:
[s]o long as the Court’s order is in effect stating that the collection will not be complete until it reaches what the Court has determined to be the target response rate, the EEOC will continue to accept Component
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