By Mark Adams
In following up on our EAlert (which can be found here), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has opened its online portal (www.eeocdata.org) for the purpose of collecting EEO-1 demographic information from covered employers.
This reporting obligation applies to employers with 100 or more employees at any time in the fourth quarter (i.e., October 1st through December 31st) of the reporting year, or are a federal contractor or first-tier subcontractor with 50 or more employees and federal contract or subcontract of $50,000 or more, or serving as a depository of federal funds or one who issues and pays U.S. savings bonds.
Employers are to report on “Component 1” employee demographic information of their workforce for a pay period between October 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Pay information will not be part of this EEO-1 reporting effort.
As mentioned in our EAlert, and as a departure from previous reporting over the past couple of years, employers are not to include “non-binary” data when it comes to reporting on the sex of its employees. Rather only binary information (e.g. – whether employees are identified as a male or a female) is to be provided.
The deadline for completing the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
In expounding on the shorter reporting period and that there will be no extensions of this deadline, the EEOC (by way of a post on its portal) stated that this is a “part of the EEOC’s efforts to identify continued cost saving for the American public.”
Any employer failing or refusing to file when required to do so may be compelled to file by order of a U.S. District Court, upon application by the EEOC.
Therefore, a covered employer shouldn’t hold off getting this reporting done. If your business is subject to this filing requirement, you can complete your filing online at by visiting: https://www.eeocdata.org/EEO1/signin.