The EEOC plans to stop paying state regulators to investigate bias against transgender workers or unintentional bias against any worker under disparate impact theory following Trump administration directives.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will no longer provide financial backing for state and local agencies’ efforts on these cases, which the federal civil rights agency previously helped fund under workshare agreements, according to a May 20 memo viewed by Bloomberg Law.
The change is in line with President Donald Trump’s executive orders limiting disparate impact theory and directing the federal government to recognize only two sexes, the memo said.
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