EEOC moves to end 1966 rule on racial data collection that would ‘resegregate’ America

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Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the EEOC, says the decades-old rule encourages employers to discriminate against white men.

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted on Tuesday to rescind a rule dating back to the 1960s that requires large employers to collect and share data on the race and gender of their workforce. The move, as part of the Trump administration’s broader anti-DEI efforts, would make it harder for Black workers, as well as women and other marginalized groups, to make claims of workplace discrimination.

In a 2-1 vote on party lines, the EEOC advanced a proposal to end a 1966 rule requiring all companies with 100 or more employees to report data on the race and gender of their workforce. The data that comes from the reporting requirement, known as an EE0-1 form, has been used by both the government and individual workers as a tool to prevent, combat or remedy racial or gender discrimination in workplaces.

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