Yesterday, the EEOC announced that it does not intend to renew its
request for authorization to collect employers' pay data on the
EEO-1 form in future years. The announcement comes less than three
weeks before the September 30th deadline for employers nationwide to submit
massive amounts of pay data for 2017 and 2018 (a deadline that is
not impacted by the EEOC's announcement).
The rollercoaster saga of the EEOC's pay data collection
(which we previously reported on including here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) began over three-and-a-half years ago
when the EEOC announced in January 2016 its plan to revise
the EEO-1 form to collect pay data (Component 2 data). The revised
EEO-1 form requires employers to submit data on
employees' W-2 earnings and hours worked across broad job
categories, and broken down by ethnicity, race, and sex. While the
EEOC contends that the revised EEO-1 form will allow it to better
assess pay discrimination, employers have expressed
