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Updated: January 23, 2025
Ensuring your business stays compliant with federal and state regulations is essential for all HR professionals. Missing a filing deadline or form submission can be costly in many ways to your company. To meet this challenge, we're giving you the tools you need to stay up-to-date on your 2025 calendar and keep all your to-dos in one place. Resources for updates on pay transparency, OFCCP compliance and much more are here in one place for you. Let's get started to kick off your 2025 on the right foot!
Beth Montgomery New Year, New 2025 HR Compliance Deadlines
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has launched a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for federal contractors' 2021 Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 Reports. This request follows a similar action taken in 2022, which targeted 2016-2020 data. Contractors now have until December 10, 2024 to file objections if they believe their reports contain sensitive information that they wish to keep private.
Debra Milstein Gardner Act Now: Protect 2021 EEO-1 Reports—Submit Objections by December 10, 2024
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently taken legal action against 15 employers in 10 states for failing to submit their mandatory EEO-1 Component 1 data reports for 2021 and 2022. The employers include companies from the retail, construction, restaurant, manufacturing, logistics, and service industries.
Debra Milstein Gardner EEOC Cracks Down on Employers: The Importance of Timely EEO-1 Reporting
As the deadline for filing the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 reports approaches, it's crucial for employers to ensure accuracy in their submissions. Filing errors can significantly impact OFCCP compliance efforts. The deadline to file 2023 EEO-1 reports is June 4, 2024, and the failure to file deadline is July 9, 2024. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection on April 30, 2024, hoping to encourage eligible filers to start the filing process early.
Debra Milstein Gardner Traversing EEO-1 Reporting: Common Mistakes and Solutions
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet, along with data file upload specifications, signaling the start of the reporting season. This annual mandate requires private sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees to submit workforce demographic data. Here's a breakdown of the latest updates and how they impact employers and government contractors.
Debra Milstein Gardner Breaking Down the 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet: Updates and Implications
The March release of the EEO-1 Component 2 dashboard by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sparked a new wave of interest in U.S. pay gaps and potential concerns for businesses. This new data portal allows users to explore pay data from large employers across various industries, broken down by race, ethnicity, gender, and job category. The data from 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 collections offers unprecedented transparency into workforce demographics and compensation practices.
Neil Dickinson EEOC Unveils Pay Insights: Impacts of EEO-1 Component 2 Dashboard on Businesses
Each year, employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors/subcontractors with 50 or more employees must file an EEO-1 report with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection portal will open on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 and close on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The data supplied is used by the EEOC and other government agencies for enforcement and research. Filing the report is a legal obligation and is not voluntary.
Debra Milstein Gardner Mark Your Calendar: EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection Portal Opens April 30, 2024
In a recent development concerning the disclosure of EEO-1 reports, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) filed a Notice of Appeal following an adverse court ruling. As previously reported, OFCCP was directed to release these reports of federal contractors, which it had previously withheld from production in response to a Freedom of Information Action (FOIA) request from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Debra Milstein Gardner OFCCP Initiates Appeal Against Adverse EEO-1 Report Disclosure Mandate
In recent legal developments, we delve into two crucial aspects of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions that have been making headlines. These events shed light on the intricacies of federal reporting requirements and data protection concerns. Let's explore these two significant narratives.
Debra Milstein Gardner Recent Developments in EEO-1 Reporting and FOIA Exemption
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) set December 5, 2023, as the reporting deadline to submit and certify the mandatory 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 reports. However, EEOC announced that it is giving employers an extension until January 9, 2024. This "Failure to File deadline" will apply to any employer who missed the original December 5 deadline.
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