Employer Pay Data Reporting: EEOC Chair Discusses Next Steps

What’s next for employers, now that the Trump administration has pulled back a requirement for certain businesses to report pay data to the government?

“The first order of business is to ensure that the regulated community knows what their compliance obligations are,” Victoria A. Lipnic (R), acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told Bloomberg BNA Aug. 30.

The White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs announced Aug. 29 that it would stay and review an Obama-era pay data collection component of the EEO-1 Report, which many employers are required to file annually with the EEOC. Covered employers, ...