Trump administration moves to scrap EEOC's annual diversity reporting rule

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission currently forces over two million employers to provide yearly summaries of employee race and gender, a practice critics say fuels the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion agenda. EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas argued in July that the data collection is unrelated to any Title VII violation and contradicts the law’s colorblind intent, even raising constitutional concerns. Executive vice president Greg Scott of 1792 Exchange warned that the rule reduces workers to mere data points for identity-based spreadsheets.

The Trump administration is now proposing to end the routine reporting requirement, though the agency would still be able to gather data when discrimination is suspected. The change aims to curb the DEI movement’s reliance on the EEOC data, which activists and ESG analysts use to benchmark companies. The EEOC has opened a comment period for the public to weigh in on the proposal.