EEOC Announces Deadline For 2021 EEO-1 Reports And EEO-1 Changes

p>On January 6, 2022, the EEOC announced that the data collection portal for 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 reports is "tentatively scheduled" to open on April 12, 2022, and that the "tentative deadline" for employers to file their EEO-1 reports is May 17, 2022.

The EEOC also announced it "is discontinuing the EEO-1 Component 1 Type 6 Establishment List Report ("Type 6 Report") for reporting establishments with fewer than 50 employees." Instead, employers with establishments with fewer than 50 employees will have to use a Type 8 Establishment Report for those locations. Now, employers will have to submit separate Type 8 Reports for each establishment with fewer than 50 employees. The EEOC also issued a Fact Sheet, in which it notes "the Type 6 Establishment List Report required filers to submit the establishment name, address, and total number of employees. It did not require the inclusion of the establishment's employee data categorized by race/ethnicity, sex, and job