EEOC Seeks Comment On Draft Strategic Plan For FY 2026–2030

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a draft Strategic Plan for FY 2026–2030 that retains the agency’s three overarching goals: enforcement, outreach and training, and organizational excellence. The draft includes detailed performance metrics covering investigation quality, litigation outcomes, systemic enforcement, intake improvements, outreach activities, and stakeholder satisfaction. Unlike the EEOC’s National Enforcement Plan (NEP), which sets substantive enforcement priorities, the Strategic...

EEOC Rescinds Longstanding Affirmative Action Guidance

The EEOC has rescinded two longstanding agency documents that for decades guided its evaluations of employers’ affirmative action initiatives. The agency now says the guidance was inconsistent with Title VII and Supreme Court precedent. The rescinded documents are: the 1979 Guidelines on Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII, which set out the agency’s framework for evaluating voluntary affirmative action plans;...

DOL Rescinds WIOA Outreach Mandate, Signals Narrower View of Nondiscrimination

The Department of Labor has rescinded a regulation that required recipients of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funds to conduct affirmative outreach to specific demographic groups. DOL concluded that it lacked statutory authority to mandate such outreach and that nondiscrimination laws do not require proactive efforts to expand participation based on protected characteristics. DOL drew a sharp distinction between...