The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) opened the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection requiring private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees and meet certain criteria, to report online the number of individuals they employ by job category and by sex and race or ethnicity. The deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is June 24, 2025.
In a message to EEO-1 Component 1 filers, acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas sought to “remind [employers] of [their] obligation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 not to take any employment actions based on, or motivated in whole or in part by, an employee’s race, sex, or other protected characteristics.” Lucas also said that companies and organizations “may not use information about [their] employees’ race/ethnicity or sex—including demographic data collected and reported in EEO-1 Component 1 reports—to facilitate unlawful employment discrimination based on race, sex, or other protected characteristics in violation of Title VII.” Lucas also explained that “there is no ‘diversity’ exception to Title VII’s requirements.”