New Rule, More Unnecessary Work: Second Look

USA TODAY's article "Business groups try to quash federal equal pay project" highlighting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's request to the Office of Management and Budget to repeal or delay the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's new EEO-1 form (which would require employers with 100 or more employees to report employee compensation and hours worked information) mischaracterized the Chamber's position in the matter. Indeed, the form will not promote equal pay because the data being collected — at enormous cost — is useless for that purpose. First, the new EEO-1 form is a massive expansion of the current form.

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Business groups try to quash federal equal pay project

The revised form expands the data collection from 180 data points to 3,660, adding millions in compliance costs which even the EEOC has admitted will have no probative value in identifying discriminatory pay practices or even lead to further investigations. Second, the...

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