EEOC to Collect Summary Pay Data

On September 29, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced it would collect summary pay data from private employers including federal contractors and subcontractors with 100 or more employees with the 2017 reporting period as proposed. However, both the annual EEO-1 filing and the new aggregated employee wage data will be due in March, 2018 using 2017 W-2 data. There will be no routine, annual EEO-1 filing in September 2017. The EEOC states the Commission and the OFCCP "...will use this data to more effectively focus agency investigators, assess complaints of discrimination, and identify existing pay disparities that may warrant further examination."
  • Private employers, including federal contractors and subcontractors with 100 or more employees, will report summary pay data in specific salary/wage groupings (not to include personal identifiers or individual pay/salaries) using the new annual Employer Information Report or EEO-1 Report.
  • March 31, 2018 will be the deadline for the new annual Employer Information Report or EEO-1 report with the summary pay data.
  • Federal contractors and subcontractors with 50-99 employees will not report summary pay data but they will continue to report employees by job category as well as by sex, ethnicity, and race as they do now.
  • Employers with 99 or fewer employees and Federal contractors and subcontractors with 49 or fewer employees will no longer complete the EEO-1 report, as is current practice.
THOMAS HOUSTON an industry leader in affirmative action preparation and planning, analysis, compliance, and compensation monitoring offers an EEO-1 Compensation Data Monitoring Report. Employers are encouraged to always review their compensation data prior to submission to any state or federal authority. Using the same W-2 data that will be supplied to the EEOC, our teams can prepare a Monitoring Report for each EEO-1 establishment and the consolidated workforce using the EEOC's 12 pay bands within each of the ten EEO-1 categories. This Monitoring Report portrays aggregated pay data both as reported and annualized using the reported hours worked. Want to get a jump on this using 2016 data? Contact our Sales Department at 954.358.0208 or info@thomashouston.com.

Source: EEOC Press Release
Final Rule: Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors

The U.S. Department of Labor announced on September 29, 2016 a final rule requiring federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees who work on or in connection with all covered contracts solicited and awarded on or after Jan. 1, 2017.

This new rule affords working family members to use paid leave if they are sick, need to take care of a sick family member, or must see a doctor or take a family member to a medical appointment. Workers may also use paid sick leave for reasons related to domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

The final rule implements Executive Order 13706, signed by President Obama on September 7, 2015. When fully implemented, the final rule:
  • Provides up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year to an estimated 1.15 million employees of federal contractors, including an estimated 594,000 employees who currently receive no paid sick leave.
  • Ensures that employers have choices in how to best adapt the paid sick leave requirement to their businesses. For example, employers can choose to allow workers to accrue leave over time, or to front-load leave for ease of administration.
  • Includes flexibility related to integration with employers' existing paid time off policies and leave provisions in existing collective bargaining agreements.
  • Improves the health and performance of employees of covered federal contractors and brings benefits packages offered by those federal contractors in line with leading firms, ensuring they remain competitive in the search for dedicated and talented employees.
  • Protects the public health by ensuring that covered federal contractors' employees, customers and clients are able to stay home when they are sick.
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