Filing Component 2 Data: The Story Continues

The filing deadline has again been extended. According to the October 30 update posted on the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) Component 2 EEO-1 homepage, until further notice, the final date for EEO-1 filers to submit their Component 2 reports for 2017 and 2018 is January 31, 2020.

On October 29, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied the EEOC’s October 8 motion for an order determining they had completed Component 2 data collection. Instead, the court issued an order that “… the EEOC must continue to take all steps necessary to complete the EEO-1 Component 2 data collection for calendar years 2017 and 2018 by January 31, 2020.”

Why the new date?

The arguments center on how to calculate the mean percentage of EEO-1 reports that had been submitted in previous years, since this is how the completeness of collection will be determined. The EEOC proposed that only EEO-1 reports submitted by the previous years’ deadlines should be included, resulting in a 72.7% mean percentage.

The plaintiffs in this case (The National Women’s Law Center, et al.) did not agree. They insisted the percentage be based on all EEO-1 reports that were filed in the previous years, including those filed after the deadline, resulting in a 98.3% mean percentage. The court agreed.
You can read the October 29, 2019 Court Order for additional information.

File as soon as possible

As in its other updates, the EEOC encourages all filers to submit their data as soon as possible.

Resources

If you have not yet filed your EEO-1 Component 2 reports, there are a number of helps available on the EEOC website. Here are a few:

• The EEOC More Information page
  • Sample form
  • Instruction booklet
  • User Guide
  • Other supporting materials
• Frequently Asked Questions page
  • Who is required to submit EEO-1 Component 2 compensation data
  • Multi-establishment reporting
  • How to report non-binary gender employees
  • More