FOIA request prompts feds to ask: Should contractors’ EEO-1 data be made public?

Affected contractors have until Sept. 19 to object to the release of Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 reports between 2016 and 2020, OFCCP said.

By Ryan Golden, HRDive, Aug. 18, 2022

Federal contractors that would object to the public release of Type 2 Consolidated EEO-1 reports filed between 2016 and 2020 will have 30 days to submit comments to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the agency said in a notice released Thursday.

The agency said the notice, scheduled to be published in The Federal Register on Friday, is in response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking a spreadsheet of all consolidated Type 2 EEO-1 reports for all federal contractors, including “first-tier subcontractors,” from 2016 to 2020.

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