The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) is the nation’s primary workplace discrimination authority. Since its establishment as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal agency has maintained jurisdiction over the investigation, mediation, and, in some instances, litigation of employment-based complaints.
As the EEOC is an executive branch entity, the federal administration strongly influences how and where it deploys its resources during the administration’s tenure. Since the start of President Trump’s second term, the EEOC has seen a staff reduction of approximately 10%. The agency has also shifted its enforcement priorities, evidenced by the EEOC’s moving in February 2025 to dismiss six of its own sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination complaints, citing a shift in policy to comply with the President’s executive orders, and more recently, by rolling back EEO-1 reporting, the agency’s demographic data collection practice dating back to 1966.
Even more recently, two major developments offer insight into how the agency is shifting its attention and execution of its administrative priorities. The first is the EEOC’s June 4, 2026 announcement of its new National Enforcement Plan, which is the agency’s outline for how it plans to focus its efforts and deploy its budget in fiscal years 2025-2029. The plan indicates that, in keeping up with the administration’s emphasis on eliminating DEI-based initiatives (see, e.g., here), the...
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