[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8186-8187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01558]
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Submission for OMB Review
AGENCY: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
ACTION: Final Notice of Submission for OMB Review--Extension Without
Change: Local Union Report (EEO-3).
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) announces that
it is submitting to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request
for a three-year extension without change of the Local Union Report
(EEO-3) (Form 274).
DATES: Written comments on this notice must be submitted on or before
February 23, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice must be submitted to Joseph B. Nye,
Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, email
[email protected]. Commenters are also encouraged to send
comments to the EEOC online at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions on the Web site for
submitting comments. In addition, the EEOC's Executive Secretariat will
accept comments in hard copy. Hard copy comments should be sent to
Bernadette Wilson, Acting Executive Officer, EEOC, 131 M Street NE.,
Washington, DC 20507. Finally, the Executive Secretariat will accept
comments totaling six or fewer pages by facsimile (``fax'') machine
before the same deadline at (202) 663-4114. (This is not a toll-free
number.) Receipt of fax transmittals will not be acknowledged, except
that the sender may request confirmation of receipt by calling the
Executive Secretariat staff at (202) 663-4070 (voice) or (202) 663-4074
(TTY). (These are not toll-free telephone numbers.) The EEOC will post
online at http://www.regulations.gov all comments submitted via this
Web site, in hard copy, or by fax to the Executive Secretariat. These
comments will be posted without change, including any personal
information you provide. However, the EEOC reserves the right to
refrain from posting libelous or otherwise inappropriate comments
including those that contain obscene, indecent, or profane language;
that contain threats or defamatory statements; that contain hate speech
directed at race, color, sex, national origin, age, religion,
disability, or genetic information; or that promote or endorse services
or products. All comments received, including any personal information
provided, also will be available for public inspection during normal
business hours by appointment only at the EEOC Headquarters Library,
131 M Street NE., Washington, DC 20507. Upon request, individuals who
require assistance viewing comments will be provided appropriate aids
such as readers or print magnifiers. To schedule an appointment,
contact EEOC Library staff at (202) 663-4630 (voice) or (202) 663-4641
(TTY). (These are not toll-free numbers.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Edwards, Director, Program
Research and Surveys Division, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
131 M Street NE., Room 4SW30F, Washington, DC 20507; (202) 663-4949
(voice) or (202) 663-7063 (TTY). Requests for this notice in an
alternative format should be made to the Office of Communications and
Legislative Affairs at (202) 663-4191 (voice) or (202) 663-4494 (TTY).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EEOC has collected information from
local unions on the EEO-3 form since 1967. A notice that EEOC would be
submitting this request was published in the Federal Register on
September 13, 2016 allowing for a 60-day public comment period. There
were no comments received from the public.
Overview of Information Collection
Collection Title: Local Union Report (EEO-3).
OMB Number: 3046-0006.
Frequency of Report: Biennial.
Type of Respondent: Referral local unions with 100 or more members.
Description of Affected Public: Referral local unions and
independent or unaffiliated referral unions and similar labor
organizations.
Responses: 1,075.\1\
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\1\ This figure differs from the estimated number of respondents
provided in the September 13, 2016 Federal Register notice. The
figure was changed to reflect the most current information on the
number of EEO-3 filers.
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Biennial Reporting Hours: 2203.75.
Biennial Cost Burden: $90,885.34.
Biennial Federal Cost: $81,935.
Number of Forms: 1.
Form Number: EEOC Form 274.
Abstract: Section 709(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2000e-8(c), requires labor organizations to
make and keep records relevant to a determination of whether unlawful
employment practices
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have been or are being committed and to produce reports from the data.
The EEOC issued regulations requiring referral local unions with 100 or
more members to submit EEO-3 reports. The individual reports are
confidential. The EEOC uses EEO-3 data to investigate charges of
discrimination and for research.
Burden Statement: The EEOC has updated its methodology for
calculating annual burden to reflect the different staff that are
responsible for preparing and filing the EEO-3. The EEOC now accounts
for time to be spent biennially on EEO-3 reporting by business agents
and administrative staff, as well as time spent by attorneys who, in a
few cases, may consult briefly during the reporting process. As shown
in Table 1 below, we estimate that Secretaries/Administrative
Assistants and Business Agents will each spend 1 hour per report, and
Legal Counsel will spend .05 hour per report. The estimated number of
respondents included in the biennial EEO-3 survey is 1,075 referral
unions, as this is the number of filers from the 2014 reporting cycle.
Table 1, below, was utilized to quantify estimates of the annual burden
of EEO-3 survey respondents. Burden hour cost was calculated using
median hourly wage rates for administrative staff and legal counsel,
and average hourly wage rates for labor union business agents.\2\ The
estimated hour burden per report will be 2.05 hours, and the estimated
total biennial respondent burden hours will be 2,203.75. The burden
hour cost per respondent will be $84.54, and the estimated total
biennial burden hour cost for all respondents will be $90,885.34. (See
Table 1 for calculations.)
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\2\ Median hourly wage rates for administrative staff and legal
counsel were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (see U.S.
Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook
Handbook, http://www/bls.gov/ooh/) and the average hourly wage rate
for a labor union business agent was obtained from salaryexpert.com
(see https://www.salaryexpert.com/salarysurveydata/job=labor-union-business-agent/salary).
Table 1--Estimate of Burden for EEO-3 Report
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Hourly wage Hours per Cost per local Total burden Total burden
Local referral union staff rate local \3\ hours \4\ hour cost \5\
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Number of Local Unions = 1075
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Secretaries and Administrative $17.55 1 $17.55 1075 $18866.25
Assistants.....................
Business Agent.................. 64.21 1 64.21 1075 69025.75
Legal Counsel................... 55.69 0.05 2.7845 53.75 2993.3375
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Total....................... 137.45 2.05 84.5445 2203.75 90885.3375
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Estimated burden hours were calculated by multiplying the number of
reports expected to be filed biennially (1,075 in 2014) by the
estimated average time to complete and submit each report (2.05 hours).
These estimates are based on an assumption of paper reporting. However,
the EEOC has made electronic filing much easier for respondents
required to file the EEO-3 Report. As a result, more jurisdictions are
using this filing method. This development, along with the greater
availability of human resource information software, is expected to
have significantly reduced the actual burden of reporting, but
empirical data in this area is lacking. The Commission continues to
develop more reliable estimates of reporting burdens given the
significant increase in electronic filing and explore new approaches to
make such reporting even less burdensome. In order to help reduce
survey burden, respondents are encouraged to report data electronically
whenever possible.
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\3\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying
the figures in the Hourly Wage Rate column by those in the Hours Per
Local Column.
\4\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying
the figures in the Hours Per Local column by 1075, the total number
of respondents.
\5\ The figures in this column were calculated by multiplying
the figures in the Cost Per Local column by 1075, the total number
of respondents.
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Dated: January 13, 2017.
For the Commission.
Jenny R. Yang,
Chair.
[FR Doc. 2017-01558 Filed 1-23-17; 8:45 am]
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