The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has modified its prior one-year approval of a request from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to extend “Component 1” of the annual Employer Information (EEO-1) Report for an additional two years, until November 30, 2026. Earlier this year, OMB approved continued use of the Component 1 EEO-1 through August 2024. At that time, OMB’s explanation for approving an extension for one year rather than the customary three years referred to OMB’s ongoing effort to revise the federal government’s standards for collecting race and ethnicity data, which would require changes to the Component 1 EEO-1. OMB might have decided to move ahead with a three-year approval of the current form because it is highly unlikely that the revisions to the Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (the “1997 Reporting Standards”) will be completed in time to integrate them into the EEO-1 before the next reporting cycle.
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