Federal law requires certain covered employers to annually file EEO-1 Forms with the Joint Reporting Committee in Virginia. For the covered employers these filings are required, not optional.

     The covered employers are:

     (a) any employer with 100 or more employees (excluding state and local governments, school systems, colleges and universities, Indian tribes, and tax-exempt private membership clubs other than labor organizations),

     (b) any employer which is part of an enterprise of companies affiliated through common ownership and/or centralized management and which has 100 or more enterprise-wide employees (with same exclusions),

     (c) any government contractor which is a prime contractor or first tier subcontractor, and which has 50 or more employees, and which has a government contract or purchase order amounting to $50,000 or more (excluding a few specific exempt government contracts),

     (d) any employer which serves as a depositary of U.S. Government funds in any amount and which has 50 or more employees, and

     (e) any employer which is a financial institution and an issuing and paying agent for U.S. Savings Bonds and Savings Notes and which has 50 or more employees.

     All full time and regular part-time employees, including leased employees, are counted as "employees" for filing purposes; temporary employees are not counted.

     The filing requirement is to file by September 30 of each year one or more completed EEO-1 Forms and related information. The EEO-1 Form is a two-page employment data reporting form in which an employer reports employment data for one or more locations for a payroll period in July - September by job categories, sex, and race.

     Complete information about EEO-1 Forms may be obtained from:

     Joint Reporting Committee
     P.O. Box 779
     Norfolk, VA 23501
     Phone 757-461-1213

     The information available includes the EEO-1 Form, the Instruction Booklet, alternative filing options, Job Classification Guide, and answers to frequently asked questions.

     An EEO-1 Form is not an affirmative action plan. An employer may be required to file an EEO-1 Form even if the employer is not required to have an affirmative action plan.

     An employer should take care to complete an EEO-1 Form accurately. In an employment discrimination case against an employer, the employer's EEO-1 Form will be discoverable and may be admissible against the employer. Also, the making of a willfully false statement on an EEO-1 Form is a federal crime.

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Dated: January, 2000
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