EEOC Announces New EEO-1 Rule

Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") announced that it had finalized its rule for new EEO-1 pay equity reporting requirements. The final rule has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

According to the EEOC's announcement, the new rule, which was first proposed in January and then revised in July, requires private employers (including federal contractors) with 100 or more employees to submit pay data with their EEO-1 reports. Employers with fewer than 100 employees will continue their current EEO-1 practices. The first deadline for the new reports will not be until March 31, 2018.

Although the final rule has not yet been made available, the EEOC has issued a number of publications about the new rule—specifically, a new EEO-1 form, a "Small Business Fact Sheet," and a "Questions and Answers" document. Based on the content of these documents, the EEOC does not appear to have made significant changes to the revised proposed