In an April 3, 2019 filing in the federal district court that
had ordered reinstatement of EEO-1 pay data reporting requirements,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) explained its
inability to comply with the court's ruling on its present
timeline, stating that it would be able to comply on an extended
timeframe. Specifically, the EEOC informed the court that it would
not be able to collect compensation data from employers (the
so-called "Component-2" of the EEO-1 form) by May 31,
2019, but that, via the use of private contractors, the agency
would be able to collect such data (for calendar year 2018) by
September 30, 2019. The EEOC further informed the judge that an
attempt to collect two years of data (2018 and 2017
retrospectively) would likely result in decreased response rates
and an unacceptable risk to the quality of data received.
