Employers, human resource professionals, and employment
attorneys all have the same burning question on their minds –
what is the Trump administration's Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC), with newly appointed Acting Chair Victoria A.
Lipnic, going to do?
An important part of this conversation is understanding the ways
in which the EEOC is able to wield its agency power. In other
words, some EEOC actions and regulations are directly attributable
to the agency itself, while other EEOC actions find support in our
existing laws and their judicial interpretation.
Two events on the horizon help illustrate this difference. The
first is the Employer Information Report EEO-1, bringing changes to
large employers' reporting requirements, beginning next year.
The second involves the matter of whether Title VII's
discrimination provisions apply to claims alleging sexual
orientation or gender identity, an issue working its way through
several federal courts with key
