EEOC proposes to eliminate EEO-1 report

On May 14, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) submitted a proposal to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to rescind the annual EEO-1 report, which requires companies with at least 100 employees to submit their employees’ race, ethnicity, and sex information annually. It would also rescind the reporting requirements for EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, and EEO-5 (which apply to public employers and unions) as well as reporting requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). 

EEOC reports agency efforts on administration priorities 

The EEOC issued a press release on May 7 to say Chair Andrea Lucas had engaged in “exhaustive efforts to restore evenhanded enforcement of employment civil rights laws . . . including by delivering on Administrative civil rights enforcement priorities and implementing key deliverables entrusted to the EEOC in 11 different Executive Orders.” 

Religious liberty. The EEOC has filed 16 religious discrimination lawsuits and recovered over $63M in settlements, including $48M in fiscal year (FY) 2025. The recoveries were for those denied religious accommodations from COVID vaccine mandates, for antisemitism, and for failure to accommodate religious beliefs. Lucas was on the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, which issued its report on April 30.