June 11, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Halts Funding for State and Local Investigations of Transgender Bias and Disparate Impact

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will no longer reimburse state and local agencies for investigating gender identity, transgender, or disparate impact claims. However, states may continue to fund such investigations on their own, and plaintiffs may still seek redress in federal court. A May 20 memorandum from the EEOC’s Office of Field Programs announced the policy shift, which applies retroactively to January 20,...
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June 10, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Seeks Significant Cuts to FY26 Budget of Workplace Regulators

President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 would eliminate the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and substantially cut funding for most agencies that regulate the workforce. The President submitted his budget request to Congress May 30. DOL’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) would assume OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA,...
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June 03, 2025
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Category: Disability, Accommodations, and Leaves

Judge Vacates Workplace Abortion Accommodation Provisions of PWFA

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cannot mandate accommodations to employees undergoing elective abortions, a federal judge ruled May 21. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ordered the EEOC to remove abortion accommodation requirements from its Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rule. The judge vacated the parts of the PWFA rule that included abortion in the definition of “pregnancy, childbirth or...
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June 02, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Proposes Eliminating OFCCP

President Trump’s FY 2026 budget request proposes abolishing the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Under this proposal, OFCCP’s enforcement of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) would shift to the Labor Department’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS), and OFCCP’s enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act would shift to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The proposed...
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May 27, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC Subpoena Enforcement Suggests Focus on Anti-American Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seeking to enforce a subpoena against Mauser Packaging Solutions in connection with a Commissioner’s charge alleging unlawful steering and discrimination against American workers. The EEOC asserts that Mauser has not complied with its information requests seeking an electronic database of job candidates and incumbent employees at eight facilities over four years, including demographic, personnel, and contact...
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May 22, 2025
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

EEOC Opens 2024 EEO-1 Data Collection; Reports Due June 24, 2025

The deadline for filing 2024 Component 1 Employer Information (EEO-1) Reports with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is June 24 at 11 p.m. Eastern Time. EEOC opened the EEO-1 Online Filing System (OFS) May 20, and the season will last five weeks. There is no subsequent failure-to-file period. The EEO-1 provides a snapshot of a company’s workforce by race, ethnicity,...
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May 21, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

Federal Court Vacates Key SOGI Provisions of EEOC Harassment Guidance

A federal court has vacated portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance related to workplace harassment of LGBTQ+ employees. On May 15, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the EEOC exceeded its authority by issuing the guidance in April 2024. It struck down the portions that define “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and “gender...
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May 08, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

President Trump Nominates Brittany Bull Panuccio to EEOC

President Trump nominated Brittany Bull Panuccio on May 6 to fill one of the three open seats on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her confirmation would give the EEOC a quorum, which will allow it to move forward with the Trump Administration’s policy priorities. The EEOC has lacked a quorum — and therefore has been unable to adopt or rescind...
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May 06, 2025
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Category: Appropriations

Proposed Budget Seeks Nearly 35% Cut to Labor Department

President Trump sent Congress an outline of his budget request for fiscal year 2026 on May 2. The proposal seeks a cut of nearly 35% for the Labor Department, mostly from workforce training programs. FY 2026 runs from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2026. The proposal seeks $8.6 billion for DOL, a decrease of $4.6 billion (34.9%) from its...
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April 29, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Trump Administration’s New Position on Disparate Impact Liability Doesn’t Impact Private Litigation

On April 23, President Trump signed Executive Order 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which seeks to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability under civil rights laws. Disparate impact is a theory under many civil rights laws that can lead to liability when a neutral policy or practice adversely affects members of a protected class. The E.O. directs the Equal Employment...
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