EEOC Announces Revised EEO-1 Rule

The EEOC published its revised EEO-1 Rule, responding to a number of comments submitted following the issuance of its proposed rule in February 2016. As a reminder, the EEOC proposed revising its EEO-1 report to require employers to provide certain wage and hour data regarding their employees to the EEOC on an annual basis. Our previous posts on this development can be found here, here and here.

After receiving a number of comments from interested parties, the EEOC revised its proposed rule in two distinct ways. First, in response to a number of comments relating to the burden of providing W-2 data with the current September 30 EEO-1 filing deadline, the EEOC has decided to modify the filing date for the submission of EEO-1 reports. Beginning with work year 2017, the EEO-1 filing deadline will be March 31 to coincide with the issuance of W-2s for the prior year. As such, the first EEO-1 under the revised rule must be filed on March 31, 2018.