18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable
Eliminate EEO-1 data collection
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“Eliminate EEO-1 data collection. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collects EEO-1 data on employment statistics based on race/ethnicity, which data can then be used to support a charge of discrimination under a disparate impact theory.”
What has happened
- Attempted
The EEOC published a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind and remove the filing requirements for the EEO-1 through EEO-6 reports and the related recordkeeping requirements at 29 CFR part 1602, saying the reports are "inconsistent with equal employment opportunity law and potentially unconstitutional" and that the data are not narrowly tailored and unnecessary to enforcement. A proposal only: part 1602 still requires the EEO-1. The Commission scheduled a public hearing on the proposal for the following week.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The Quote names the EEO-1 alone; the proposed rule sweeps in EEO-2 through EEO-6 as well, so the ask is a subset of the rulemaking. It stays attempted and not partial because nothing has been removed: 29 CFR 1602.7–1602.14 still require the reports while the rulemaking runs.
- The preamble also says the Commission intends to fold into the same final rule the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act references it proposed for part 1602 in November 2024.
- Search for an earlier step — a suspended or canceled collection cycle — found none. The only EEOC Federal Register documents in the window are those listed in the chapter log.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- EEO-1 data collection
- ID
- 1594