April 07, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Seeks To Remove Non-Binary Response Option for EEO-1 Reporting

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has asked the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval to change the EEO-1 Report’s instructions relating to employees that self-identify as non-binary. Employers likely will be required to report all employees as either male or female in the next reporting cycle. For the past several years, the EEOC has instructed employers that they...
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March 24, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Updated 2022 EEO-1 Benchmark Tables

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, is pleased to provide its members with an updated set of labor market benchmarking tables incorporating the latest headcount data from the 2022 EEO-1 filing cycle. The 2022 EEO-1 Tabulations have been loaded into CWC’s Data Center. A comparison of the 2022 data with 2021 data and 2018’s pre-pandemic data...
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March 20, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

New CWC State And Local AAP Development And Submission Requirements Resource

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has published a new resource that covers state and local affirmative action program development and submission requirements for contractors. The resource — CWC’s State and Local AAP Development and Submission Requirements — highlights jurisdictions where contractors are required or could be asked to maintain or submit qualitative or quantitative...
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March 04, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OFCCP Terminates All FAAP Agreements

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs terminated all Functional Affirmative Action Program (FAAP) agreements between OFCCP and federal contractors on February 20. The agreements permitted contractors to structure their affirmative action programs (AAPs) by function rather than location. The regulations implementing Executive Order 11246 had required federal contractors to structure their AAPs by location unless OFCCP approved a different...
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February 06, 2025
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Category: Compensation

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2024 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its Filing Guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The updated guide covers the rules for filing the report for 2024, which is due May 14, 2025. This guide provides tips on the steps that a covered company should follow when pulling the data for...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: Compensation

Massachusetts Publishes Filing Details for February 1st EEO-1 Reporting Requirement

Massachusetts has issued FAQs explaining employers’ obligation to report workforce data under the state’s new Salary Range Transparency Act. Under the law, employers with 100 or more employees in Massachusetts must submit a copy of their most recent EEO-1 Report to the state annually by February 1 (or the next business day). This year they will be due February 3. The FAQs explain...
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January 15, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Revises Rule Governing EEO Reporting Exemptions

The EEOC issued a final rule January 10, 2025, revising its regulations governing hardship exemptions from annual EEO-1 reporting.   To be exempt from EEO reporting requirements, an employer must show undue hardship. Previously, EEOC Commissioners voted on exemption applications. Now, however, the Chief Data Officer will process applications. Under the new rule, an exemption is more likely to be granted when: The filer...
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December 03, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

OFCCP Construction Contractor Utilization Report Due April 2025 (and Every Month Thereafter)

Federal construction contractors and subcontractors must begin filing their monthly CC-257 forms April 15, 2025, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced. Employers that have a federal construction contract or subcontract, or a contract in which federal funds pay for construction work worth more than $10,000, must submit a Monthly Employment Utilization Report (CC-257) to OFCCP on...
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November 07, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

Religious Groups Seek To Block FCC Demographic Data Collection Similar to EEO-1 Report

A group of religious broadcasters has asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters. The court’s ruling could have implications for similar data collections like the EEO-1 Report. Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to resume collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters, a practice...
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October 31, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

New FOIA Requests Seek Contractor EEO-1 Data From 2021

OFCCP will release the EEO-1 Type 2 Reports for thousands of contractors for the 2021 filing year unless the contractors file a written objection with OFCCP by December 9, the agency announced October 29, 2023. The release will occur in response to Freedom of Information Act requests from the University of Utah and a non-profit organization named As You Sow. The...
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