Overview
- The California Civil Rights Department says the pay-data reporting portal is scheduled to open on February 2, 2026, with Excel templates re-uploaded without substantive changes.
- CRD has condensed its FAQs to 11 pages and added upload specifications in the Handbook’s Appendix C, with a separate User Guide expected shortly.
- RY 2025 adds required reporting of exemption status, an expanded employment type that includes an intermittent category, and total annual weeks worked.
- Weeks worked must reflect the actual number of calendar weeks worked, including weeks of paid leave, and be reported as whole-number totals at the group level.
- Remote-work reporting shifts to three counts for each establishment and group, the guidance adopts MENA as a race/ethnicity category, and the 100+ employee coverage threshold remains unchanged.