President
Trump
has
stopped
an
Obama-era
rule
requiring
large
companies
to
report
how
much
they
pay
workers
by
race
and
gender.
The
goal
of
the
rule
was
to
help
in
closing
the
wage
gap
between
men
and
women,
and
between
different
racial
groups,
by
providing
additional
transparency
to
the
issue.
The
Trump
administration
claims
it
halted
the
rule
on
the
belief
that
it
would
not
work
as
planned.
The
rule
required
private
employers
with
over
100
employees,
and
federal
contractors
with
50
or
more
employees,
to
disclose
wage
and
pay
data
to
the
Equal
Employment
Opportunity
Commission.
Under
the
rule,
the
EEOC
would
have
used
the
data
in
investigating
complaints
regarding
disparities
in
pay.
The
data
would
not
have
been
made
public;
however,
the
EEOC
would
have
released
the
aggregate
data
about
pay
in
various
industries,
broken
down
by
race
and
gender.
Some
critics
of
the
rule
argued
that
it
was
not
precise
enough
to
be
useful.
Supporters
of
the
rule
disagreed,
arguing
that
employers
that
monitor
themselves
have
smaller
pay
gaps.
For
Kansas
employers
with
over
100
employees,
this
move
means
that
you
will
not
have
to
provide
this
data
to
the
EEOC
starting
in
2018,
as
the
rule
had
not
gone
into
effect
before
its
suspension.
