Employers remain obligated to complete and submit their EEO-1 reports, even with the current administration’s aggressive reworking of the anti-discrimination landscape. Federal mandatory reporting requirements require private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees that meet certain criteria to report annually the number of individuals they employ by job category and by sex, race or ethnicity.
For the currently due 2024 report, the reporting window opened on May 20, 2025, with a deadline of Tuesday, June 24, 2025. The most recent EEOC directive states emphatically that no extensions will be allowed and that employers will be automatically “out of compliance,” if failing to file by the stated June 24 deadline. Without elaboration, the acting EEOC Chair stated that the 2024 reporting period was shortened from past years as part of “efforts to identify continued cost savings for the American public.”
The 2024 EEO-1 report differs from past reports by requiring employees to be identified as male or female, with no binary classifications allowed. Employers must identify employees by up to eight different racial or ethnic classifications, as well as within ten different job categories.
