As mentioned in previous Holland & Knight alerts, employers
are required, by Sept. 30, 2019, to produce to the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) what is referred to as
EEO-1 Component 1 data, which lists employees by job category,
race, ethnicity and sex. Employers are also required to provide
EEO-1 Component 2 data from 2017 and 2018 payrolls, which asks for
employees' hours worked and pay information from their W-2
forms, broken down into the same categories as listed above.
While Component 1 and 2 data is still due by Sept. 30, 2019, the
EEOC has announced that in the future it will not require employers
to produce EEO-1 Component 2 data. (EEO-1 Component 1 data will
still be required.) The rationale behind the EEOC's decision is
that the burden imposed on employers to gather the data outweighs
the usefulness of the data for the agency. However, it should be
stressed that EEO-1 Component 1 and 2 data is still due by
Sept. 30, 2019.
