EEO reporting fails quietly. The company crosses 100 employees and nobody connects headcount to obligation. The person who 'always filed it' retires with the portal password. The HRIS race/ethnicity field is blank for a third of the roster, so a manager fills it in by looking around the room. Then a federal contract bid — or a discrimination suit — asks for the filings.
This checklist makes the obligation and the data explicit: filing thresholds for EEO-1 and EEO-4, the workforce snapshot rules, job category mapping by actual duties rather than inflated titles, a self-identification data quality section that keeps demographics defensible, and an ownership record so the filing survives personnel changes.
Who should use this reporting readiness checklist
- Private employers at or approaching 100 employees
- Federal contractors with 50+ employees
- Texas cities, counties, and districts covered by EEO-4
- HR teams inheriting reporting duties with no documentation
What it helps prevent
- Missed filings discovered during contract bids or litigation
- Race/ethnicity data assembled by manager guesswork
- Job categories mapped by title instead of actual duties
- Workforce snapshots pulled from the wrong pay period
- A compliance obligation that lives in nobody's job description
What’s inside
- Part 1 — Filing Obligation
- Part 2 — Snapshot and Counts
- Part 3 — Job Category Mapping
- Part 4 — Demographic Data Quality
- Part 5 — Ownership and Filing Record
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Faulkner HR Solutions helps Texas employers, nonprofits, municipalities, and growing businesses fix the people systems behind recurring workplace problems. If this resource raised a risk flag, do not guess your way through the next step.