The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken the first step toward eliminating one of employers’ longest-standing workforce reporting obligations: the annual EEO-1 report.
The agency on May 14 submitted a proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeking approval to rescind the EEO-1 and several related demographic reporting requirements, including EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, and EEO-5 reports. If finalized, the move would end the federal government’s decades-long practice of collecting workforce demographic data on race, ethnicity, and sex from covered employers.
The EEO-1 Component 1 report currently requires private employers with 100 or more employees to submit a breakdown of workers by job category, race, ethnicity, and sex. The data has long been used by the EEOC to identify potential patterns of discrimination and by employers to conduct their own pay equity and representation analyses.
The proposal aligns with the Trump administration’s broader effort to scale back DEI initiatives and reduce federal collection of demographic information. Earlier this year, the EEOC rescinded its workplace harassment guidance and made other procedural changes that signaled a narrower enforcement approach.
Eliminating EEO-1 reporting would represent a major departure from prior administrations, including the first Trump administration, which sought to halt pay data reporting but left the underlying demographic report...
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