United States : Intel chooses the transparency route and will release employee pay data broken down by race and gender

After a Bloomberg report on 17 October (here), Intel Corp has said that later this year it will publicly release the employee pay data that it sends to the US authorities, which is broken down by race and gender. Longtime a target of criticism, in 2018 Intel announced not only had it achieved its goal of raising minority ethnic representation levels within its workforce, but that it had done so two years ahead of time. The group also announced it was bolstering its female employee retention programs (via mentoring and a dedicate female network), as females represent just 27% of the overall US headcount. This time round the group is going further and publicly releasing its confidential gross pay data. All companies with more than 100 staff are required to provide this information to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Although Intel has chosen the full transparency route by publicly releasing the information, by the 25 September 2019, almost half of the companies impacted by this requirement still had not provided the EEOC with the information. As a result the original deadline of 30 September has had to be extended ‘until the target response rate as set by the Court has been achieved.’