A group of three states – California, Maryland, and Minnesota – has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) give them access to the “Component 2” pay and hours-worked data collected by the agency for 2017 and 2018, arguing that the EEOC is unlawfully denying them access.
According to the complaint filed in the federal district court for the Northern District of California, the EEOC historically has allowed certain state Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs) unfettered access to the EEO-1 data filed by employers in their states. They allege that the EEOC’s revised practice restricting access to the data unless it relates to a charge under investigation by the FEPA is unlawful.
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