For the first time in four decades, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has made big changes to the EEO-1 Report, which provides the government with workforce profiles by ethnicity, race, and gender, divided into job categories. According to the EEOC, the new format “recognizes the shifting demographics of today’s workplace” and will provide the agency with information that will better enable it “to accurately monitor the advancement of women and people of color into the upper ranks of management.”
The report must be filed annually by employers with 100 or more employees or employers with federal government contracts of $50,000 or more and 50 or more employees. Employers must use the new EEO-1 form for the 2007 survey, which is due by Sept. 30, 2007. The EEOC expects employers to use the current format for their 2006 EEO-1 submissions.
Race and Ethnic Data
The agency has changed the EEO-1 Report’s race and ethnic categories on the new form by:
- Adding a new category titled “Two or more races, not Hispanic or Latino”
- Deleting the “Asian and Pacific Islanders” category
- Adding a new category titled “Asians, not Hispanic or Latino”
- Adding a new category titled “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, not Hispanic or Latino”
- Extending the EEO-1 data collection by race and ethnicity to the state of Hawaii
- Strongly endorsing employee self-identification of race and ethnicity as opposed to visual identification by employers
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Job Categories
Changes to the job category information on the new EEO-1 Report include:
- Dividing “Officials and Managers” into two levels based on responsibility and influence within the organization: “Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers” and “First/Mid-Level Officials and Managers”
- Moving nonmanagerial business and financial occupations from the “Officials and Managers” category to the “Professionals” category.
More Information
The new form, along with instructions, can be accessed here: