EEO-1 Survey Report Deadline Extended by EEOC

Author: Robert S. Teachout, XpertHR Legal Editor

April 24, 2018

Employers that were scrambling to meet the deadline for filing their 2017 EEO-1 report have been granted a brief reprieve. Recently, and without announcement, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) changed the filing deadline posted on its website from March 31 to June 1. The deadline extension follows several other changes and clarifications to the reporting process made during the past year.

In September 2016, the Obama administration had changed the pay data reporting form in an effort to counter pay discrimination. Employers would have been required to provide additional summary pay data, broken out by gender, race and ethnicity. But a year later, the EEOC told employers not to report employees' pay data when filing their EEO-1 surveys.

Following the changes and the subsequent indefinite postponement, employers had until March 31, 2018, to file their 2017 data. The extension now gives them an additional two months to comply. Employers that are required to file an EEO-1 report should continue to report the same data about the ethnicity, race and sex of workers by job category as they filed in previous years and use a "workforce snapshot period" between October 1, 2017, and December 31, 2017.