DON'T FORGET: NEW EEO-1 FORM FOR 2007

Those employers with (a) 100 or more employees or (b) 50 or more employees and federal government contracts of $50,000 or more, are now required to use a revised EEO-1 annual reporting form.  The new form should be submitted, as usual, by September 30 of each year.  However, it contains some important changes that may immediately affect your data collection efforts.  For example, the EEOC has added a new category to “Racial Identity” entitled "Two or more races,” and has divided the single category of "Asian or Pacific Islander" into two separate categories: "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander."  The category "Black" has been renamed "Black or African American" and "Hispanic" has been renamed "Hispanic or Latino."  In another important change, the new form strongly endorses the practice of having the employee self-identify his or her race and ethnicity, as opposed to the old method of relying on the employer to visually determine those characteristics.   

The EEOC has also revised the form’s job categories.  The old category, "Officials and Managers," is now divided into two levels:  “Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers” (defined as those who plan, direct and formulate policy, set strategy and provide overall direction; and in larger organizations, those within two reporting levels of the CEO); and “First/Mid-Level Officials and Managers” (defined as those who direct implementation or operations within specific parameters set by Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers, and who oversee day-to-day operations).  In addition, the business and financial occupations have been moved from the “Officials and Managers” category to the “Professionals” category.   You may download the new form.