EEOC Sends Plan to End EEO Reporting Requirements to the White House

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sent a proposal to the White House that could dramatically reshape federal workplace discrimination oversight by ending long-standing EEO-1 reporting requirements for employers.

According to multiple reports published this week, the agency submitted a proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget on May 14 seeking approval to rescind several federal equal employment reporting rules, including the annual EEO-1 filing requirement used by large employers for decades.

The EEO-1 report requires private employers with at least 100 employees — and certain federal contractors — to submit workforce demographic data categorized by race, ethnicity, sex, and job classification. The reporting framework dates back to the Civil Rights Act era of the 1960s and has long been used by the EEOC to identify patterns of workplace discrimination and support enforcement actions.

The proposal would not only eliminate EEO-1 reporting but could also rescind other federal equal employment data collections, including EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, and EEO-5 reports tied to unions, state and local governments, schools, and other covered entities. Reports indicate the proposal also touches reporting requirements connected to statutes such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.