Court Order Officially Ends Gender, Race Pay Data Reporting

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s first-ever uniform collection of race and gender pay data from U.S. businesses has been closed by a federal judge in Washington.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia deemed the collection complete, about 10 months after she first ordered the civil rights agency to gather it from approximately 60,000 companies.

For now, the closure ends one chapter in a years-long clash between businesses, equal pay advocates, and federal agencies over effective ways to shrink pay gaps for women and minorities, while balancing the burden placed on ...