82 FR 43362 - Stay the Effectiveness of the EEO-1 Pay Data Collection

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 178 (September 15, 2017)

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announces that, until further notice, filers subject to the EEO-1 reporting requirement should not submit aggregate data about W-2 (Box 1) income and hours worked, which is the information required by ``Component 2'' of the EEO-1 report as approved on September 29, 2016. However, filers should continue to submit data on the ethnicity, race, and sex of workers by job category (``Component 1'' of the EEO-1 report). This is the same type of EEO-1 data that filers have submitted in the past.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 178 (Friday, September 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43362-43363]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19489]


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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

[3046-0007]


Stay the Effectiveness of the EEO-1 Pay Data Collection

AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) 
announces that, until further notice, filers subject to the EEO-1 
reporting requirement should not submit aggregate data about W-2 (Box 
1) income and hours worked, which is the information required by 
``Component 2'' of the EEO-1 report as approved on September 29, 2016. 
However, filers should continue to submit data on the ethnicity, race, 
and sex of workers by job category (``Component 1'' of the EEO-1 
report). This is the same type of EEO-1 data that filers have submitted 
in the past.

DATES: All EEO-1 filers should submit and certify their 2017 EEO-1 
reports (Component 1 data only) by March 31, 2018. They should count 
employees for purposes of this EEO-1 report during a ``workforce 
snapshot period'' between October 1 and December 31, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program 
Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507 (202) 663-4949 
(voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). Requests for this notice in an 
alternative format should be made to the Office of Communications and 
Legislative Affairs at (202) 663-4191 (voice) or (202) 663-4494 (TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum \1\ informing the EEOC that OMB 
was initiating a review and immediate stay of the effectiveness of a 
portion of the EEO-1 report that was initially approved on September 
29, 2016.\2\ Specifically, OMB initiated a review and immediate stay of 
the portion of the EEO-1 report that required the reporting of 
aggregate W-2 (Box 1) income and hours-worked data by employers 
(including federal contractors) with 100 or more employees. (This is 
called EEO-

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1 ``Component 2''.) OMB did not stay the portion of the EEO-1 report 
that requires filers to submit data on the race, ethnicity, and sex of 
their workers, by job category. (EEO-1 ``Component 1'') The EEOC will 
continue to collect EEO-1 Component 1 data from all filers during OMB's 
review and stay.
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    \1\ OMB's memorandum is available at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/Utilities/Review_and_Stay_Memo_for_EEOC.pdf.
    \2\ The September 29, 2016 Notice of OMB Action was reissued on 
October 18, 2016. https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201610-3046-001#
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    Thus, pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.10(g), the EEOC hereby announces that, 
until further notice, filers subject to the EEO-1 reporting requirement 
should not submit aggregate W-2 income and hours worked data under 
Component 2 of the EEO-1, but that they should submit data about race, 
ethnicity, and sex, by job category, as required by Component 1 of the 
EEO-1. Filers should follow the EEO-1's new reporting schedule. The 
2017 EEO-1 report should be submitted and certified by March 31, 2018. 
Filers should use a ``workforce snapshot period'' between October 1 and 
December 31, 2017.

    Dated: August 31, 2017.

    For the Commission.

Victoria A. Lipnic,
Acting Chair.
[FR Doc. 2017-19489 Filed 9-14-17; 8:45 am]
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