Get Ready to Count Race and Ethnicity to Match New EEO-1 Report

William H. Truesdell, SPHR

President, The Management Advantage, Inc.

Strategic Business Partner of Merit Resource Group

On November 28, 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published a Notice of Submission for OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Review containing its final version of the updated EEO-1 Report.

NOTE: If you are a private sector employer with 100-plus employees, or a government contractor with 50-plus employees and $50,000 in government contracts you will be affected by these proposed changes once approved. Regardless, affected or not, as an HR professional you should understand these issues and share them with others.

Qualifying employers must file demographic data each year by September 30 that tells the government the makeup of their workforce by sex and race/ethnicity. This is further divided into occupational categories called EEO-1 Groups.

The EEO-1 Report is one of several Standard Form 100 reports created by the government to amass statistics about America's workforce. EEO-1 contains information from private sector employers (both publicly traded companies and privately held). EEO-4 contains information from public sector employers (cities, counties, states, special districts). What used to be the EEO-5 and EEO-6 reports for the education sector have now been embedded in Department of Education reports. The EEO-3 report, however, is still required of unions. And EEO-2 is required for Labor-Management Committees and certain apprenticeship programs. The EEOC began collecting employer data in 1966 under the authority given to it by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From then until now, little has changed in the EEO-1 form.

Proposed Changes in EEO-1

Several changes are being made in the race/ethnic categories for which reporting will be required...

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This article is the second in a series addressing changed or new requirements that HR professionals and company leaders need to be aware of. If you would like to discuss the impact of these new requirements on your business, you may contact Mr. Truesdell at aap@merithr.com, or you may call us at 925-867-4400 / 408-501-8863.