April 2022 Newsletter

DIVERSITY & SHRM provides guidance to employers on current topics in Equal Employment Opportunity Law. Here are two updates from SHRM about potential federal changes that may be enacted in the future. Revisions to EEO-1 Form Requires Certain Procedural Steps People who are nonbinary don' t identify exclusively as male or female. Whi le the EEOC is exploring ways to col lect nonbinary gender data from employers—the first time the agency has signaled such an interest—the agency doesn' t SHRM MANAGEMENT UPDATES ON LGBTQ PROTECTIONS have authorization to require employers to col lect that information in EEO-1 reports. Revisions to the information col lected on the EEO-1 form require a vote of the ful l commission fol lowed by approval of an information col lection request by the Office of Budget and Management . The annual EEO-1 form asks for information from the previous year about the number of employees who worked for the business, sorted by job category, race, ethnicity and gender. The OFCCP also is considering options to let federal contractor employees self-identify as nonbinary. (Bloomberg) and (SHRM Onl ine) INCLUSION FROM THE OFFICE OF 12

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