For over 50 years, by September 30, employers with 100 or more
employees and federal contractors with at least 50 employees were
required to submit an EEO-1 report to the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEO-1 report provides the EEOC
with data about the size, location, and race and gender
demographics of an employer's workforce. In 2017, due to
proposed changes that would have required employers to also provide
information on employee compensation and hours worked, the filing
deadline for 2017 EEO-1 reports was changed to March 31, 2018.
Although those changes were later withdrawn by the Office of
Management and Budget, the new filing deadline stayed in place.
Now that September is once again upon us, it is important to
note that March 31 continues to be the annual deadline.
Accordingly, the 2018 EEO-1 report is currently due on March 31,
2019,1 based on a workforce payroll snapshot taken
between October 1 and December 31, 2018. The information
