On March 4, 2019, a federal court in Washington, D.C., ordered
the Trump administration to reinstate an Obama-era rule that had
been placed on hold. The court ruling will require employers to
annually report pay data by gender, race and ethnicity to the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
EEO-1 Disclosure Requirements
For decades, the EEOC has required private employers with 100 or
more employees to annually file an EEO-1 report, which breaks down
the number of employees in different job categories by gender, race
and ethnicity. Federal government contractors and subcontractors
with 50 or more employees also are subject to this reporting
requirement.
In 2016, after receiving approval from the White House Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), the EEOC issued a rule expanding EEO-1
reporting requirements to include W-2 wages and total hours worked
in the prior year for all employees in 12 proposed pay bands. The
EEOC's stated intent of the proposed
