New EEO-1 Reporting Requirements for 2025
About this Event

Description:

The EEOC announced that the long-delayed 2024 EEO-1 reporting period has finally opened on April 30, 2025.

The EEOC provides important details concerning support for these filings, stating that the EEO-1 online Filer Support Message Center, the new title for the filer help desk, also opened on April 30, 2025. The EEOC will post updated information concerning the 2024 EEO-1 data collection on the agency's website as it becomes available. Specifically, the EEOC plans to post an updated 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet for filers and the updated 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Data File Upload Specifications for filers by March 19, 2025. It is anticipated that the EEOC will release a new set of guidance in the form of answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) for this year's filings prior to the opening of the filing platform.

One very significant omission from this announcement is the lack of any discussion of adding pay data collection to the 2024 EEO-1 filings. While there had been much speculation that the EEOC would begin EEO-1 Component 2 pay data collection as part of the 2024 filings, there is no mention of this in the announcement, strongly suggesting that there will be no pay data collection for 2024 or 2025.

The EEOC’s announcement follows closely on the heels of the completion of the 2022 EEO-1 filing cycle, which ended on January 9, 2025, when the filing platform was closed.

All employers with 100 or more U.S. employees and federal contractors with at least 50 U.S. employees are required to submit an EEO-1 report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) each year. The 2024 report will have to be based on a workforce payroll snapshot taken between October 1 and December 31, 2024.

The EEOC has stated that all updates about the 2024 EEO-1 data collection, including an updated Instruction Booklet and Data File Upload Specifications, will be posted to www.eeocdata.org/eeo1 on March 19, 2025.

The EEO-1 reporting deadline has become a moving target, so covered employers need to sharpen their data collection and be ready to upload.

The EEOC and the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regulations require eligible employers to file Standard Form 100 (EEO-1 reports) annually through the EEOC’s dedicated website for EEO-1 Component 1 data collection.

The purpose of collecting the data is to support enforcement actions, facilitate research on employment patterns, and encourage self-assessment by employers, according to the EEOC. Some companies voluntarily go a step further and publicly release their demographic information to support their diversity efforts or improve accountability.

Why You Should Attend:

File by June 4, 2025 – or earlier! In the past, the EEO-1 reporting system has slowed down significantly as the deadline approached, which makes filing more challenging. You might want to allow yourself sufficient time before the deadline so you aren’t scrambling at the last minute with technical challenges. Typically, the EEOC does not provide for extensions.

Areas Covered:

Learn what the EEO-1 Reporting Instructions have changed, and which have stayed the same.
Learn what changes will be established for the 2024 reporting period.
Learn if there will be any surprises for the 2024 reporting period.
Learn who is required to complete the EEO-1 Report
Learn how to use the proper categories to complete requirements.
Learn the best practices when getting employees to complete the voluntary identification.
Learn what the changes are to complete the requirements of the EEO-1 reporting.
Learn what the categories are for completing the EEO-1 form within compliance.
Learn how the EEOC will manage transgender and binary recording.
Learn how you should handle transgender reporting.
Learn how to use the EEOC’s EEO-1 Online Filing System (OFS).
Learn how Federal Contractors need to complete the requirements of risk penalties.
Learn how the pay data reporting is still looming for the EEOC.
Learn what companies have been selected to have their reports reviewed.