EEOC Chair Reverses Trump-Era Policy on State Data Sharing (1)

EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows has made it easier for state workplace civil rights agencies to access workforce diversity data—a shift from a Trump-era policy that had restricted sharing the race, sex, ethnicity and job group information.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collects the workforce diversity data and uses it in its anti-discrimination enforcement efforts, and in the past, provided it to state and local employment agencies without restrictions. That changed during the Trump administration, and under former Republican Chair Janet Dhillon, resulting in legal action against the EEOC.

But Burrows, a Democrat, has now pivoted back to allowing ...