Labor law is evolving at the state and federal level, but employers don’t need to be concerned as long as they take steps to remain compliant, attorneys from Polsinelli Law firm said during a Wednesday webinar.
Some areas of focus identified last year by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for fiscal years 2024 to 2028 may be reversed by the Trump administration, they said. For now, however, the EEOC lacks a quorum, so it cannot vote on policy or enforcement of civil rights laws.
President Trump put forth a nominee for the EEOC board earlier this week, however, and if that nominee is confirmed, the board would have enough members to set policy. For the time being, it is far to say that Acting Chair Andrea Lucas will continue to advocate for the president’s agenda, according to Polsinelli attorney Emily Heimbecker.
“Despite not having the quorum, the EEOC has been really active, and the announcements from the EEOC help us understand the priorities,” Heimbecker said.
From the beginning, Heimbecker noted, Lucas has said she would be consistent with the president’s executive orders and priorities, “which includes rooting out unlawful 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 rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces at work, protecting workers from religious bias and harassment, including anti-Semitism, and...
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