On Sept. 29, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)  its revisions to the Employer Information Report or EEO-1 report, which will impact private employers, including federal contractors and subcontractors, with 100 or more employees.  Beginning in March 2018, such employers will be required to report pay data and hours worked on the . The 2017 EEO-1 report will be due on March 31, 2018.  ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓmembers can read an prepared by ABC’s General Counsel, Littler Mendelson P.C.

The revised EEO-1 report has :

• Summary pay data: Employers report the total number of full and part-time employees they had during that year in each of 12 pay bands listed for each EEO-1 job category; employers do not report individual pay or salaries.
• Aggregate hours worked data: Employers tally and report the number of hours worked that year by all the employees accounted for in each pay band. 

The revision does not change the requirements for federal contractors and subcontractors with 50-99 employees who will continue to report employees by job category, sex, ethnicity and race. Federal contractors and subcontractors with 49 or fewer employees and employers (without federal contracts) with 99 or fewer employees are still not required to complete the EEO-1 report.

ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓ on April 1 and Aug. 12 expressing serious concerns about the EEOC proposal.  In its comments, ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓexplained that it is committed to compliance with laws prohibiting discrimination with respect to compensation. However, ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓurged the EEOC to withdraw the proposal because it imposes an unjustified burden on employers, fails to generate useful and reliable information to combat pay discrimination, and fails to protect the confidentiality of the information.

Resources on the revised EEO-1 report include:

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• EEOC will offer  on Oct. 20 and Oct. 26, 2016.

EEOC Small Business Resource Center Now Available
The EEOC recently introduced the online  to help small employers better understand their responsibilities under federal employment discrimination laws.  The center provides several resources, including fact sheets, instructional videos and step-by-step guidelines, to assist small employers in developing compliant workplace policies and programs with respect to pay, accommodations, retaliation, recordkeeping and other EEOC requirements.