This week, we discuss how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) new leadership is reshaping workplace policies and enforcement priorities.

New Leadership and Priorities for the EEOC

The EEOC, now under the leadership of Chair Andrea Lucas and with a full quorum for the first time in years, is signaling shifts in enforcement priorities that could have significant implications for employers.

What Employers Should Know:

• New Leadership: Chair Lucas has emphasized a commitment to “upholding merit-based, colorblind equality” in workplace policies.
• Key Priorities: Among the EEOC’s key priorities are protecting pregnant workers, addressing religious bias, and scrutinizing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs for potential reverse discrimination.
• Religious Focus: The EEOC is expected to issue new guidance on religious discrimination and accommodations.

In this episode of Employment Law This Week®, Epstein Becker Green attorney James D. Mackinson discusses the latest updates from the EEOC and what they mean for employers.