Divide Between Employers, Worker Advocates Widens Over Pay Data

An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission update to a federal judge further split employers and worker advocates over the hotly debated incorporation of pay data into an annual workforce data report submitted to the agency.

The EEOC told Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 3 that it could collect employee pay data by a deadline of Sept. 30 if it turned to a contracted data and analytics outfit, NORC at the University of Chicago. Chutkan on March 4 reinstated the pay data collection, which was blocked in August 2017 from taking...