The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently posted information on the EEO-1 landing page stating that the 2021 EEO-1 filing platform is tentatively scheduled to open on April 12, 2022, with the filing deadline tentatively set for May 17, 2022. This approximately four-week filing period is significantly shorter than the length of time provided for recent EEO-1 filing periods. For instance, the 2017 EEO-1 filing period opened on January 24, 2018, with an initial deadline of March 31, 2018, while the 2018 EEO-1 filing cycle opened on March 31, 2019, and had an initial deadline of May 31, 2019. For the most recent EEO-1 filing cycle, which covered filings for both 2019 and 2020, the filing platform opened on April 26, 2021, and had an initial filing deadline of July 19, 2021, which was extended several times until a final deadline of October 25, 2021, was set. Looking at recent EEO-1 filing periods in which reports from a single year were collected, one would have expected an approximately eight-week filing period for the 2021 EEO-1 data collection, but the EEOC appears to be prepared to collect all 2021 EEO-1 reports in approximately four weeks.
While the EEOC has extended EEO-1 filing deadlines recently, the agency’s setting of this short collection period for the 2021 EEO-1 reports represents a major change that could result in even more pressure on employers that were forced to deal with a difficult EEO-1 filing cycle in 2021 that extended late into...
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