EEOC moves to end 60-year employer demographic reporting

newsJul 21, 2026251,695

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Republican majority voted 2-1 to rescind the 60-year-old EEO-1 demographic reporting requirement, submitting the proposal to a 30-day public comment period before final approval. EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas argued the annual reports risk promoting racial stereotyping and may encourage employers to engage in discrimination. Since 1966 employers with at least 100 workers, and federal contractors with at least 50, have filed the EEO-1, which breaks workforce counts by 10 job categories, gender, and race and ethnicity; the data typically covers more than 50 million employees and about 73,000 employers. The EEOC receives more than 88,000 worker complaints annually and has historically used EEO-1 data to guide enforcement priorities and target investigations. Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal, the commission’s lone Democrat, voted against the proposal and warned it would weaken the agency’s ability to protect workers. Former Democratic commissioners and civil rights organizations criticized the move, saying ending the collection would deprive the agency and the public of a key tool for spotting discrimination trends; the EEOC under the Biden administration had published an interactive tool using historical EEO-1 data, with the most recent public data from 2023 and undisclosed 2024 data. If finalized, the change would halt collection that would have begun for 2025 and reduce a centralized source of workforce demographic information used in discrimination enforcement and public transparency.

jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

the real discrimination is doing anything to fight discrimination, you see apnews.com/article/eeoc...

15703h ago

jamelle865

can't say there's discrimination in the workforce if we refuse to measure it

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦10

The real discrimination is having the ability to even detect discrimination.

zcroissant99.bsky.social4

Lucas is a scumbag and if the next Dem president doesn’t immediately fire her and the other Republican on the this commission they will fail.

The Menopausal Marauder3

Not to generalize, but she looks exactly like the sort of person I’d imagine heading this up. You have to get a woman to do it, you see, or else it would be too obvious. I don’t understand women who do this to other women.

Sarah Not-From-Congress McBride2

Remember, fighting against discrimination is discrimination against whites

The Morrigan2

State sponsored bigotry just like his Nazi buddies want

Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

When power is rooted in disinformation, data become a threat. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

401h ago

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈

@wattle.bsky.social

"EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, an outspoken critic of diversity and inclusion practices who has urged white men to come forward with discrimination complaints..."

223h ago

Ragnarok Lobster

@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social

Trump decides to make "I don't see color" the official government policy. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

222h ago

Quoting this

Janna Bastone🪷resignKenMartin4

Finding a new way to abolish civil rights every damn day.

Treyf Posting 🤌2

Great. Now the US is doing a France. Fuck.

Y’allsey

@aisling206.bsky.social

The (white supremacist) reasoning behind this move is that you can’t claim discrimination when there’s no data to support your claim. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

104h ago

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Y’allsey15

ALSO: This move was explicitly mentioned in Project 2025.

Philip N Cohen

@philipncohen.com

We used these data for key research on workplace inequality: Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005 www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/ASQ10.pdf Black Underrepresentation in Management across U.S. Labor Markets www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/AAAPSS0...

113h ago

Tonezib

@tonezib.bsky.social

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years apnews.com/article/eeoc...

71h ago

Bruno J. Navarro

@brunojnavarro.bsky.social

EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, an outspoken critic of diversity and inclusion practices …, argued that requiring companies to submit the annual demographic reports risks encouraging companies to justify discriminatory practices to diversify their workforce.

34h ago

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davidrlurie10

Bigotry likes to operate in the absence of facts.

Saigonbond

@ogsaigonbond.bsky.social

The most racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted administration in US history keeps trying to turn back time before civil rights, women's rights, & gay rights moved America forward as an inclusive society. MAGA dreams of a country ruled only by white fake Christian men. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

41h ago

Maraki

@maraki.bsky.social

Oh, look, another gift for the racists, thanks to a recommendation from the Project 2025 playbook. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

21h ago

Ⓜ️𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊 💙 🦋

@lmariev.bsky.social

The Trump administration is moving to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the EEOC, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

11h ago

AJ Stands With Major Watson

@aag-aj.bsky.social

apnews.com/article/eeoc.... These are evil people. #ElectADemocrat whenever you can. Not without flaws, but not fundamentally evil.

13h ago

aunt witchy

@witchywomin.bsky.social

Full offense to Andrea Lucas who heads and is destroying the very EEOC that allowed her to get the job. Fucking twatwaffle.

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Angel of the Ozarks

@angeloftheozarks.bsky.social

It cannot be stated often and loudly enough, but if you give a Republican the choice between improving their own lives or hurting Black people, they will pick hurting Black people every time. apnews.com/article/eeoc...

11h ago

White House Watchdog

@whitehousewatchdog.bsky.social

The Trump administration aims to dismantle a long-standing reporting requirement for employers to submit workforce demographic data to the EEOC, impacting workplace anti-discrimination efforts.

4h ago

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