JOBS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Tuesday [8-29-17] said it will halt a planned Obama-era rule that would have required businesses to begin collecting data about how much they pay workers of different genders, races and ethnic groups, saying it posed a burden to employers.
The data-collection requirement was proposed by the Obama administration in 2016 as part of its efforts to address pay disparities among workers of different groups.
The Trump administration will stay the implementation of the rule, which would have required employers to report the pay data for the first time in the spring…
The Obama administration proposal directed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to begin collecting wage and pay data from private employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees. The proposal effectively expanded the range of data employers were required to report beginning this year on a form called the EEO-1. That form has been used for decades to collect information on the racial and gender makeup of the American workforce but hasn’t measured how different groups are paid.
The Obama administration said the proposal would better allow the EEOC to analyze and combat pay discrimination.”
-Ted Mann, “White House Won’t Require Firms to Report Pay by Gender, Race,” The Wall Street Journal online, Aug. 29, 2017 07:00pm