The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) collects workforce data from federal contractors and employers with more than 100 employees. Some required reports are submitted annually, such as the EEO-1, The Employer Information Report. The other three reports are submitted biennially; the EEO-3 and EEO-5 in even calendar years, and the EEO-4 in odd-numbered years. The reports collect data about gender and race/ethnicity by various job groupings. In 2005, the Commission approved a revised EEO-1 report which employers began using for the reporting period beginning September 30, 2007. The changes involved dividing the job category of “Officials and Managers” into two levels, and implementing revised race/ethnic categories.
The EEOC plans to update the other reports to use the same race and ethnic categories as the new EEO-1, but they intend to give respondents a full reporting cycle to change their recordkeeping. The next EEO-4 report will be due on September 30, 2009. Since the report covers the payroll period which includes June 30th of that year, notice of any reporting changes would have to be announced by June, 2008. It is more likely that the announcement will follow the pattern of the EEO-1 implementation, so that the revisions would be released during the 2009 reporting cycle and required for 2011 reporting. Integral monitors the EEOC website for new developments and subscribes to their e-mail update service.
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