Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Minor

Reorient EEOC enforcement toward disability, religion, and pregnancy claims

Not started

587 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies

“Reorient enforcement priorities. EEOC should reorient its enforcement priorities toward claims of failure to accommodate disability, religion, and pregnancy (but not abortion).”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The EEOC's announced enforcement priorities in the window are DEI-related race and sex discrimination, antisemitism on campus, and "anti-American bias" in hiring — not the failure-to-accommodate claims the Quote names. Religion is reached indirectly by that program; disability and pregnancy accommodation are not among the priorities the Commission has published, and no new Strategic Enforcement Plan has been issued.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Negative search: chapter log, Cluster negative search — EEOC internal-practice asks (#1609, #1610, #1611, #1612).
  • The Quote asks for a reorientation toward disability, religion and pregnancy accommodation claims. Accommodation cases continue to be brought, but continuing an existing caseload is not the reorientation asked for, and the priorities the Commission has actually announced point elsewhere. Recorded as not started with the announced priority as the dated Primary Evidence.
  • The pregnancy limb has a wrinkle worth noting rather than leveling on: the Commission’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulation remains in force apart from its abortion-accommodation provision, and the 2026-07-23 EEO-1 rescission NPRM says the Commission intends to fold its 2024 PWFA amendments to 29 CFR part 1602 into that final rule. Housekeeping, not a change of priorities.
Action
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EEOC enforcement priorities
ID
1612