If EEO-1 Reporting Ends, Should Employers Continue Collecting Workforce Demographic Data?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently proposed eliminating the requirement for covered employers to provide workforce demographic information through the annual EEO-1 Report. If finalized, the change would reduce a longstanding federal reporting obligation for many employers.

However, employers should not assume that elimination of the report will make workforce demographic information irrelevant. To the contrary, employers may have good reasons to continue collecting and analyzing this information, even if they no longer have to submit it to the EEOC.