EEO-1 Reporting
The Employer Information Report (EEO-1), otherwise known as the EEO-1 Report, is required to be filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's EEO-1 Joint Reporting Committee. Notification letters are mailed to employers beginning in July of each year. The preferred method for completing the EEO-1 reports is the web-based filing system. All companies should receive their EEO-1 filing materials by mail no later than mid-August of each year. These dates for receipt of the EEO-1 filing materials may change in 2017 as the newly revised deadline date for filing submission is March 31, 2018. This deadline change was a result of the September 29, 2016, approval to include W-2 Pay Data in the 2017 EEO-1 Report.
UPDATE! As of August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum informing the EEOC that the OMB was initiating a review and immediate stay of the effectiveness of the W-2 Pay Data portion of the EEO-1 report. Specifically, the immediate stay was on the portion of the EEO-1 report that required the reporting of aggregate W-2 (Box 1) income and hours-worked data by employers (including federal contractors) with 100 or more employees. The OMB did not stay the portion of the EEO-1 report that requires filers to submit data on the race, ethnicity and gender of their workers, by job category (EEO-1 “Component 1”). The EEOC will continue to collect EEO-1 Component 1 data from all filers during the OMB’s review and stay. The data collection period for the EEO-1 Reporting will be October 1 – December 31, 2017. The EEO-1 Report filing submission deadline will remain March 31, 2018.
VETS-4212 Reporting
The VETS-4212 has simplified the way employers report on the number of employees and new hires who are protected veterans* covered by VEVRAA. The VETS-4212 form requires employers to enter four columns of data plus the maximum and minimum number of employees at the specific location.
UPDATE! The filing deadline for the VETS-4212 Report has been extended from September 30, 2017 to November 15, 2017 as a courtesy to employers due to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
* Disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans.
