Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled that the EEOC may not discontinue its
pay data collection efforts on November 11, 2019, but rather, must
continue its collection efforts until it has collected from at
least 98.3% of eligible reporters and must make all efforts to do
so by January 31, 2020. The ruling is the latest in a lengthy saga
regarding whether EEO-1 Component 2 pay data (data on
employees' W-2 earnings and hours worked across broad job
categories, and broken down by ethnicity, race, and sex) would be
collected—a saga that began with the Office of Management and
Budget staying collection efforts, and culminated last Spring when
Judge Chutkan ruled the decision to stay the collection lacked the
reasoned explanation required by the Administrative Procedure Act
(see overview
here). After vacating the stay, Judge Chutkan initially set the
deadline for data collection for May 31, 2019, but later
extended it to September 30, 2019.
