Under a new state law enacted in 2020, by April 1 of each year private employers with 100 or more employees and with at least one employee working in the state of California must collect and annually report certain pay and hours-worked data by race, ethnicity, sex, and EEO-1 job category for: (1) all employees working within California, and (2) employees working outside California, but assigned to a California location.
Data must be submitted to the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), which as we reported recently has revised the technical specifications for the current reporting cycle. To assist employers that are required to file, DFEH has updated its website, the online Pay Data Reporting Portal and accompanying User Guide, and Data Specification Templates to be used for each submission, along with posting new Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
Given the number of employers that are impacted by these annual reporting requirements, and as we did for last year’s reporting cycle, we have prepared the following tips on how to identify what must be reported and the steps a company should consider following when pulling the data in anticipation of the April 1, 2022, filing deadline.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.