ICYMI: Scott Scrutinizes EEOC for Abandoning Mission to Protect Workers from Discrimination

ICYMI: Scott Scrutinizes EEOC for Abandoning Mission to Protect Workers from Discrimination

WASHINGTON - Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce scrutinized the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) led by Chair Andrea Lucas regarding its recent moves which signal that the EEOC is straying from its mission to protect workers from employment discrimination and promote equal opportunity in the workplace.

"It is imperative that, under your leadership, you discontinue the path of derailing the importance of disparate impact litigation, faithfully executing EEOC's law to all of its protected classes, and retrain the 2024 Harassment Guidance," wrote Ranking Member Scott. "I strongly urge you to reverse course and recalibrate your approach toward this honored Commission that has held a position of public trust for more than 60 years."

Under Chair Lucas' leadership, the EEOC has made highly unusual decisions, many of which ignore years of law and legal precedent apparently in order to conform to President Trump's misguided directives to abandon workers experiencing disparate impact discrimination and excise diversity, equity and inclusion practices from the workplace.

"After decades of expanding its reach, the Commission has inexplicably narrowed its mission, deciding that it would no longer enforce Title VII's prohibition against disparate impact discrimination, it is inviting only white men-who were always protecting from discrimination by Title VII- to reach out to the EEOC with allegations of discrimination, and it is rescinding its guidance on what constitutes prohibited workplace harassment," continued Ranking Member Scott.

On November 24, 2025, Ranking Member Scott expressed his opposition to the EEOC's proposed Harassment Guidance recission and urged the EEOC not to abandon its mission to fully protect workers from discrimination.

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