First, the good news:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has provided notice that it won’t renew the requirement that covered employers provide “Component 2” pay data as part of their annual EEO-1 reporting filings.

Now, the not-so-good news:

The EEOC also noted that this decision not to renew does not affect the September 30, 2019,deadline by which private employers with 100 or more employees are required to submit Component 2 data for the calendar years 2017 and 2018.  With that deadline less than two weeks away, affected employers have hopefully either submitted their data or are well along the way to doing so.  For further guidance, please see our previous article, which provides further detail as to what a Component 2 report entails.