In its remaining months, the Obama administration is accelerating one of its most ambitious efforts to narrow pay gaps by gender, race and ethnicity.
Set to take effect next year, a proposed rule from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would require all employers with 100 or more workers to submit pay data from W-2 forms along with their already mandated EEO-1 diversity reports. Observers say the reporting rule would vastly expand employer data-collection demands and allow EEOC and U.S. Labor Dept. to “target” firms for pay bias enforcement.