Biden-Era Workplace Bias Policies Under Threat With Trump DOJ

The incoming Trump Justice Department is poised to pull back from defending lawsuits over Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidance that gave workers gender identity bias protections and other rules covering abortion-related accommodations.

The first Trump administration’s DOJ took opposing stances from the EEOC in several workplace discrimination cases before federal courts. The rift that formed between the agencies is poised to emerge again, creating potentially vexing civil rights law enforcement contradictions.

“The DOJ will make those decisions based on the parties involved, the challenge—but we know, given the previous Trump administration and the challenges that we’ve seen so far, that ...