Employee Civil Rights Agency Reveals New Internal Task Force (1)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has formed an “internal task force to take a look at vulnerable workers,” Chairwoman Janet Dhillon told a House subcommittee Sept. 19.

Dhillon didn’t provide additional details about the task force, which she mentioned in an Education and Labor Subcommittee hearing. An EEOC spokesman declined to provide additional information following the hearing.

Dhillon and Craig Leen, the head of the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, defended various decisions that critics on the Democrat side of the panel have said will water down discrimination protections for workers. That includes the EEOC’s move to ...