The EEOC’s plan to stop collecting employers’ race and gender data will cut off a decades-old tool that’s allowed the commission to focus antidiscrimination enforcement strategies and individual investigations.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told the White House May 14 it aims to rescind a number of workforce reporting requirements, including its EEO-1 form used to collect demographic information from employers with at least 100 workers.
The move is aligned with broader Trump administration goals of attacking workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts as biased against White men. But employment attorneys and advocates said it could actually hinder the commission’s ability to enforce anti-discrimination laws, especially for systemic cases, even those that address Chair Andrea Lucas’s priorities.
“EEOC would be removing a really powerful tool to look at broad based employment patterns for traditional discrimination purposes, or even for racially discriminatory DEI,” said David Cohen, president and founder of DCI Consulting.
The EEOC sent notice of its plans to rescind EEO-1 data collection, as well as other EEO forms that collect similar information from unions and local governments. Without a formal proposal published yet in the Federal Register, the purpose of the rescission isn’t entirely clear.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 called for axing the EEO-1 over concerns it “could lead to racial quotas to remedy alleged race discrimination.”
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