Proposed EEOC Rule Signals Shift in Reporting Requirements

The EEOC chair knows gutting diversity reporting will blind the agency to discrimination. She's doing it anyway.

On April 22, Andrea Lucas, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), addressed a group of academics, legal experts, and community advocates at a conference at Harvard University.  The conversation immediately turned to the elephant in the room: the EEOC’s investigation into anti-Semitism at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of the investigation, the EEOC subpoenaed the university for the names and contacts of employees a…

Proposed EEOC Rule Signals Shift in Reporting Requirements

By Nicole L. Stangl | Employment BlogMay 28, 2026On May 14, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) submitted a proposal to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (“OIRA”) seeking to rescind EEO-1 reporting requirements for all eligible employers, along with EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, and EEO-5 data collection, and reporting requirements under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Ge…