EEOC is moving forward with the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection. The submission portal is scheduled to open on May 20, 2025. Employers have until June 24, 2025 to upload their report.
The EEO-1 Component 1 report is a mandatory annual data collection that, until recently, required all private sector employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees to annually submit workforce demographic data, including data by job category and sex and race or ethnicity, to the EEOC. On January 21, 2025, President Trump rescinded Executive Order 11246 and its implementing regulations, relieving federal contractors with 50-99 employees of the obligation to file an annual EEO-1 report. However, the 2024 EEO-1 Instruction Booklet erroneously cites to the Executive Order as the legal authority requiring federal contractors with 50-99 employees to file an EEO-1 Component 1 Report. The EEOC will likely issue a correction shortly.
Additionally, in compliance with Executive Order 14168, Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, the EEOC no longer permits employers to report non-binary employees as a separate category. All employees must be reported as male or female.
Employers required to submit the 2024 EEO-1 must report employee counts based on a pay period between October 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. Employees must be reported by sex and race or ethnicity within the 10 specified job categories.
For more information regarding employers’ obligations to file the EEO-1, contact Consuela Pinto at PintoBrown.
