EEOC Moves Forward With Proposal To End EEO-1 Reporting

In our earlier post, With the EEOC Poised to End EEO-1 Reporting, What’s Next for Employers?, we discussed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) anticipated effort to end mandatory EEO-1 reporting. The EEOC has now taken the next step: on July 21, 2026, it issued a proposed rule that would rescind regulations requiring EEO-1 and other workforce demographic reports.

For private employers, the key takeaway is that this remains only a proposal. Current EEO-1 obligations are still in place unless and until a final rule says otherwise. Employers should therefore continue current compliance efforts and avoid making immediate changes to demographic data collection or recordkeeping practices based solely on this development.