President Donald Trump has fired two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as well as a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). He also fired NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.
The removed Democratic EEOC commissioners—Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows—said they would explore their legal options to challenge their removal, NPR reported. Gwynne Wilcox, the removed Democratic NLRB member, also said she would sue.
The NLRB now is without a quorum to decide cases, as is the EEOC, according to NPR and The New York Times. Meanwhile, the EEOC has taken down some guidance on its website that was issued during the Biden administration, including guidance on when monitoring wearables—digital devices, such as smartwatches, that are worn on the body and have embedded sensors that track things such as bodily movements, biometric data, or location— may violate nondiscrimination laws.
The guidance removal and other actions signal a shift at the board tasked with adjudicating discriminatory practices. Andrea Lucas, the EEOC’s acting chair, laid out the body’s priorities after the president’s DEI orders last week.
“Consistent with the president’s executive orders and priorities, my priorities will include rooting out illegal DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related...
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