By: Micaela L. Neal

Private employers with 100 or more employees (as well as federal contractors and some subcontractors with 50 or more employees) are required to file an EEO-1 survey each year with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”).  The survey is to be submitted through the EEOC online portal.  This year, there are two deadlines that employers must meet:

First, Component 1 data must be submitted by May 31, 2019.  Component 1 data is the race, ethnicity and sex data traditionally required by the EEO-1.

Second, Component 2 data must be submitted by September 30, 2019.  Employers will be required to submit Component 2 data for calendar years 2017 and 2018.  Component 2 data is a new requirement, and consists of wage/pay data for the Workforce Snapshot Period.  Employers must identify the number of employees by race, ethnicity and sex within each of ten EEO-1 job categories who fall within 12 defined pay bands, as well as the hours worked by those employees for the calendar year.

The May 31, 2019 and September 30, 2019 deadlines are subject to change, and have been in a state of fluctuation as a related federal court case is making its way through the appellate process.  The Component 2 survey is not yet available online, although the EEOC has announced it should be available by mid-July.  Employers should make efforts to prepare the data required for the reports, but also stay apprised of developments.

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Micaela L. Neal is an attorney with Wanger Jones Helsley PC and practices in Fresno and Sacramento.  She regularly represents employers in wage and hour and other employment matters.  This article is intended to notify our clients and friends of changes and updates to the law and provide general information.  It is not intended, nor should it be used, as legal advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship between the author and the reader.