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New EEO-1 Reporting Requirement Effective September, 2007

Private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors who have contracts totaling $50,000 and who employ 50 or more employees must file a revised Employer Information Report (EEO-1) by September 30, 2007.  The EEOC has changed the form for the first time in 40 years. 

While the forms do not need to be filed until September, companies should start now with proper data collection.  Employers who periodically ask their employees to update personal information can use these periodic requests to ask employees to confidentially self-identify.  For example, the form has changed a number of race and ethnic categories.  It has added a new category titled “Two or more races.”  It has also divided “Asian or Pacific Islander” into two separate categories:  “Asian” and “Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.”  It has also renamed “Black” as “Black or African American,” and “Hispanic” as “Hispanic or Latino.”

In addition, changes have been made to job categories.  “Officials and Managers” is divided into two levels based on responsibility and influence.  Certain business and financial occupations have been moved from the “Officials and Managers” category to Professionals.

Only Section D of the form has changed.  The other sections remain the same.  Forms should be filed online, as has been allowed in the past.  The new form and a variety of information concerning these changes can be found on the EEOC’s website at www.eeoc.gov/eeo1/index.html.  It is anticipated other EEO forms will be updated and revised over the next couple years.

Please contact Doug Witte with any questions about the new EEO requirements.

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