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Once in a while, everyone might feel like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”, wondering whether we are living the same day at work over and over again. A persistent question, though, is whether everyone is being paid lawfully for doing so. 

Last Friday, seven years to the day that President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on the day of his inauguration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced proposed changes to its EEO-1 report. Beginning next year, employers with 100 or more employees – whether or not those employers are federal contractors – would be required to submit data on employee W-2 earnings and hours worked, broken down by race/ethnicity and gender. There are about 60,000 such employers. 

The EEOC proposes the addition of the new pay and the use of the new form data to annual EEO-1 reports because it believes the new data will assist the agency in identifying possible pay discrimination and will assist employers in analyzing equal pay issues in their workplaces.