Coronavirus Delays Collection of Workforce-Diversity Reports (1)

The federal agency that enforces workplace civil rights law wants to spare businesses during the coronavirus pandemic from a requirement to submit workforce-diversity data broken down by race, sex, ethnicity, and job group.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday it will delay the collection of diversity data for 2019, which businesses normally provide in response to an annual survey known as the EEO-1, pending White House approval of the information collection, the agency announced in a Federal Register notice. The agency asked for the Office of Management and Budget’s approval for the collection March 20.

“The collection of ...