NT Lakis lawyers have submitted a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asking the agency to reconsider approval by the Obama Administration last year of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) expansive revisions to the Employer Information (EEO-1) Report.
Our letter, addressed to Mick Mulvaney, the newly confirmed OMB director, points out that the EEOC’s revisions will require covered employers to report summary compensation and hours worked totaling nearly 3 billion cells of data to describe a reportable workforce of only 76 million employees. We contend that this factor alone is enough to merit OMB reconsideration of the previously approved changes, especially in light of the Trump Administration’s vow to reduce overly burdensome regulatory requirements.
As of right now, covered employers will be required to begin filing the expanded EEO-1 as early as March of next year. We argue that immediate review by OMB is the quickest way to begin the process of reconsidering the EEOC’s changes, thus saving covered employers significant resources that might otherwise be expended developing new compliance systems if reconsideration is delayed.
Members of the Equal Employment Advisory Council (EEAC) can read more here.