EEOC should continue to work towards making the race and ethnicity categories on the report compliant with the 1997 Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. EEOC should not require respondents to file 2012 reports during this approval period.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
06/30/2012
6 Months From Approved
7,218
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0
32,481
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0
0
0
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EEOC regulations require Public Elementary and Secondary School districts with 100 or more employees to collect and retain in their records demographic information about their employees, and report this information to EEOC biennially in even-numbered years. EEOC uses this information to enforce civil rights laws and shares it Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Education and the U. S. Department of Justice.
Emergency approval is necessary to continue data collection during this reporting period.
US Code:
42 USC 2000e-8(c)
Name of Law: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.