Though the 2021 EEO-1 landing page labels the opening and closing dates for the 2021 EEO-1 filing cycle as “tentative,” the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has notified prior filers that the 2021 filing platform will “officially open” on April 12, 2022, and close on May 17, 2022. This approximate five-week period is significantly shorter than prior filing periods. Meanwhile, during a webinar on March 29, 2022, EEOC representatives disclosed that the EEOC plans to close the 2021 EEO-1 filing platform on June 21, 2022. While this schedule could change as 2021 filings proceed, this proposed timetable suggests that the EEOC intends to conclude 2021 filings on an abbreviated schedule compared to prior EEO-1 filing windows.
Filings for the EEOC’s 2021 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection should be less complicated than the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 filings, which posed several obstacles, including a new filing platform, paper-mailed login information, a requirement of filing two years of reports, and the abandonment of the new platform’s mergers and acquisition system deep into last year’s filing cycle. An unresolved question exists as to whether the revised process for handling 2019 and 2020 mergers, acquisitions, and spinoffs means that all transactions from the 2019 and 2020 filing cycles are resolved. This is a concern because of the deluge of business activity during 2019 and 2020, including COVID-19–related business disruptions in early 2020. If the EEOC did...
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