The EEOC has announced final approval of the new EEO-1 Report (Employer Information Report) to go into effect for 2007. The new form is the first major change to the employer survey in four decades and will be required for the 2007 survey, which is due by September 30, 2007.
What is the EEO-1 Report, you ask? The Report is a government form requiring many employers to provide a count of their employees by job category and then by ethnicity, race and gender. The EEO-1 report is submitted to both the EEOC and the Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The EEO-1 report, submitted annually to the EEOC by September 30, must be filed by:
• Employers with federal government contracts of $50,000 or more and 50 or more employees; and
• Employers who do not have a federal government contract but have 100 or more employees.
The EEO-1 report must be. It must use employment numbers from any pay period in July through September of that year.
And in case you were wondering — yes, the Commission is required by law to keep individual employer EEO-1 reports strictly confidential.
The revised form with instructions can be found at: www.eeoc.gov/eeo1/index.html. Employers are expected to use the current format for their 2006 EEO-1 submissions (still available on the EEOC’s website here).
