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EEOC chair proposes ending employer demographic reporting

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The chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Andrea Lucas, has proposed rescinding a regulation that requires employers to report demographic data on race and gender. This move ends a six-decade precedent and is seen as a shift away from addressing systemic discrimination towards focusing on individual claims. Critics argue that eliminating this reporting will make it harder to identify patterns of discrimination, such as pay gaps or disproportionate layoffs, which are crucial for class-action cases benefiting minority workers. AI

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EEOC chair proposes ending employer demographic reporting

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Jacqueline Munis ·

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

    In April, Andrea Lucas told Harvard students that demographic data collection is sometimes necessary. A month later, her agency proposed to stop the reports.

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