EEOC announces plan to analyze EEO-1 Component 2 data

On July 16, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it had voted unanimously to fund a statistical study with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) conducting an independent assessment of the quality and utility of the EEO-1 Component 2 data for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 (https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-announces-analysis-eeo-1-component-2-pay-data-collection). The agency collected the employer pay data after a federal district court rejected the Trump administration's suspension of the Obama-era rule requiring it to do so.

The CNSTAT's project began on July 1, 2020, and will be completed by December 31, 2021. The committee previously reviewed methods for measuring and collecting pay information, issuing a final report, "Collecting Compensation Data from Employers," in 2012 (https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13496/collecting-compensation-data-from-employers).

Meanwhile, in the most recent "Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions," published on June 30, the agency is considering initiating a rule that "may include a new reporting requirement by which employers would submit pay data or related information as reasonable, necessary, or appropriate for the enforcement of Title VII . . . and the Equal Pay Act."

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