Lawmakers Split on EEOC Halt of Future Gender, Race Pay Reports

Lawmakers in Congress are taking partisan sides on the debate over the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decision to discontinue collecting worker pay data, in advance of a public hearing on the issue.

House Republicans and Senate Democrats sent dueling letters to the EEOC roughly a week before the hearing. The lawmakers largely reiterated arguments previously made by business groups and worker advocates, respectively.

The burden on employers to collect the data, its lack of utility, and confidentiality risks are reasons enough to halt the pay data collection, ranking Republican members on the House Committee on Education and Labor Virginia Foxx ...