Employment / 1 min read
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed lawsuits against 15 employers, alleging the companies failed to submit mandatory EEO-1 reports for prior years, including reporting years 2021 and 2022.
Federal law requires private employers with 100 or more employees (and federal contractors with at least 50 employees) to submit EEO-1 data relating to the sex, race, and ethnicity of its workforce. The EEOC uses this workforce demographic data for various purposes, including enforcement, analytics, and employer self-assessment.
In the 15 recently filed lawsuits, the EEOC is not requesting they be fined, but asking the courts to issue orders forcing the employers to file EEO-1 reports for the missing years, thus becoming compliant with mandatory federal reporting requirements.