President Biden has nominated plaintiffs’ lawyer Kalpana Kotagal to a seat on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) to replace current Commissioner and Trump appointee Janet Dhillon when Dhillon’s term ends on July 1, 2022. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Ms. Kotagal will give Democrats a majority on the EEOC for the first time since the Biden Administration took office, and would likely pave the way for a number of significant policy changes that worker advocates have been urging the EEOC to implement.
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