Democrats’ Shot at EEOC Pay Report Dwindles in Trump Transition

The EEOC’s Democrats are running out of time to revive a key proposal to collect pay data from employers, as the specter of an incoming Trump administration and a more conservative commission loom large.

The proposal to enact a rule for large businesses to annually submit their pay data by race, sex, ethnicity, and job category to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is unlikely to survive a transition to a Republican administration with a de-regulatory agenda — and a president that upended a similar Obama-era initiative.

The commission’s switch to a Republican chair in January will all but end its ...