Seyfarth Synopsis: Today, the EEOC
submitted a status report in the litigation concerning the EEO-1
Component 2 submissions for 2017 and 2018. While employers
scramble to meet the aggressive September 30th deadline imposed by
the Court, the EEOC notified the Court that the portal would remain
open after September 30th and that it “will continue to
accept data as long as the Court’s order is in
effect.”
As we have previously reported, the Court required the EEOC to
collect two years of data by September 30, 2019 and ordered that
the data collection would not be deemed to be complete until a
certain threshold number employers (i.e., the percentage of filers
equals or exceeds the average percentage of filers for the last
four EEO-1 reporting cycles) submit the required reports. As
of September 25, 2019, only 39.7% of eligible filers have submitted
their reports. Accordingly, the EEOC informed the court that
the portal will remain open until the Court-ordered target
