On July 14, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a revised proposal to collect data on employees’ compensation and hours worked through the EEO-1 reports that larger employers are required to submit annually. Notwithstanding numerous public comments stressing the burdens that this reporting requirement would impose on employers and the limited statistical utility that the information may offer, the EEOC is pressing forward with only modest revisions to its original proposal.
The revised rule will apply to employers subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act with 100 or more employees. The EEOC rejected comments urging a higher workforce threshold, stating, “exempting employers with fewer than 500 employees, or even fewer than 250…would result in losing data for a large number of employers who employ millions of workers, and thus would significantly reduce the utility of the pay data collection.”