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DOL/OFCCP RIN: 1250-AA03 Publication ID: Fall 2014 
Title: Requirement to Report Summary Data on Employee Compensation (Compensation Data Collection) 
Abstract: The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is responsible for enforcing Executive Order 11246, as amended, (EO 11246) which prohibits Federal Government contractors and subcontractors from discriminating against individuals in employment based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin. The EO 11246 also requires these employers to take affirmative action to provide equal employment opportunity. On April 8, 2014, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to the Secretary of Labor, directing him to propose, within 120 days of the date of the memorandum, a rule that would require Federal contractors and subcontractors to submit to the Department of Labor summary data on the compensation paid to their employees, including data by sex and race. While working women have made extraordinary progress over the past five decades since enactment of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, they still earn only 77 cents for every dollar that a man earns. For African-American women and Latinas, the pay gap is even greater. This pay differential shortchanges women and their families by thousands of dollars a year, and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime. Federal law, including the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), specifically prohibits compensating men and women differently for the same work. OFCCP regulations at 41 CFR Part 60-1 implementing Executive Order 11246, as amended, set forth obligations of covered contractors and subcontractors. 
Agency: Department of Labor(DOL)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 41 CFR 60-1     (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: Presidential Memorandum, Advancing Pay Equality Through Compensation Data Collection (issued April 8, 2014)    Executive Order 11256, September 24, 1965, 30 FR 12319, as amended   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
ANPRM  08/10/2011  76 FR 49398   
ANPRM Comment Period Closed  10/11/2011    
NPRM  08/08/2014  79 FR 46562   
NPRM Comment Period End  11/06/2014 
NPRM Comment Period Extended  11/05/2014  79 FR 65613   
NPRM Comment Period Extended End  01/05/2015 
Final Action  08/00/2015 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Related RINs: Previously reported as 1215-AB80 
Agency Contact:
Debra Carr
Director, Division of Policy and Program Development
Department of Labor
Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
200 Constitution Avenue NW., FP Building, Room C-3325,
Washington, DC 20210
Phone:202 693-1159
Email: carr.debra@dol.gov