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EEO-1 Reporting Update for 2026: Is the Mandate Ending?

For decades, the EEOC’s EEO-1 report has been a familiar—if often burdensome—fixture on the compliance calendar for employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors. Each year, the HR department dutifully assembled workforce demographic data across race, ethnicity, and gender categories, knowing the report served as both a regulatory requirement and a data point for federal EEO enforcement. This year’s EEO-1 reporting cycle has been delayed (no information available) and a new firm reporting deadline has not been set. As of early June, the EEOC has not opened the filing portal, and has not published an updated instruction booklet yet. In years past, the reporting deadline was in mid-year (summer).

Employers are left waiting to know if they will have to report 2025 data this year, or not. The delay is likely due to a new sweeping proposal that will reshape federal workplace reporting requirements. In May 2026, the EEOC formally submitted a proposal to rescind the EEO-1 reporting requirement altogether, along with several related reports used across unions, government entities, and schools. If finalized, the change would eliminate the annual reporting mandate (that has been in place since 1966).

It’s important to recognize that nothing has officially changed—yet. The proposal must go through a rulemaking process, before it becomes final. Until the process is complete, all the existing legal requirement remain in force and covered employers are technically still obligated to prepare and submit their EEO-1 data, if and when the EEOC opens the filing window. So, employers should still keep workforce demographic records, in case the change does not occur. We will watch for future updates from the EEOC.

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