The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on May 20 that 2024 EEO-1 reports are due June 24. It is unusual for agricultural employers to be required to file a Form EEO-1; employers must meet certain criteria to be required to file:

• First, you must be covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act; to be subject to Title VII, you must employ 15 or more persons on each working day on each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding year.
• If you meet the first test, you must file an EEO-1 if you have 100 or more employees or in a pay period selected by the employer occurring between October 1 and December 31 of the report year (many farm employers are not required to file an EEO-1 because the seasonal nature of their business means they are free to select a pay period in this time frame when they have fewer than 100 employees);

The EEOC doesn’t fine companies for failing to file EEO-1 forms or for late filing but can go to federal court to compel you to file if you’re required to do so; think of the legal fees you’ll have to pay as your “fine.”

Covered employers must report on the racial/ethnic and gender composition of their workforces by specific job categories, referred to as component 1 data.

You can find more information at: (eeocdata.org/eeo1).