TAKE ACTION: Protect Data for Working Women!
Submit Public Comment on EEO-1 Data Collection by August 24th
For over 60 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has collected workforce data known as EEO-1, a vital tool that helps to expose unfair employer practices and uncover discrimination. On July 23, the EEOC proposed new rules that would eliminate collection of this critical data.
Removal of EEO-1 data collection will make it harder for the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, researchers, advocates, and workers to identify barriers to equal opportunity and address systemic discriminatory practices that reduce job opportunities. Getting rid of the data doesn’t make discrimination go away―it just makes it harder to identify, investigate, and address.
At a time when workers—particularly Women of Color, women in low-wage jobs, women with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ women—are already struggling to get by, it is vital that we see the discrimination happening in order to address it.
Working women’s rights are on the line. We need you to demand that the federal government protect us from workplace discrimination.
TAKE ACTION
Submit a public comment opposing these rules. The deadline is August 24th. Here's how:
- Click to access the public comment form.
- Enter your comment. Not sure what to say? We’ve included sample language below.
- Personalize your message—the more you make the comment your own, the less likely it is to be filtered out. Share an experience you, a coworker, or loved one had, or a concern that you have about workplace discrimination. Talk about how enforcing civil rights laws is important to you and your community.
- Fill out the other fields on the form with your email address, whether you’re representing yourself or an organization, and that you understand the terms. Then click ‘Submit.’
- Then spread the word! Share this page with your family, friends, neighbors, and networks. We need as many people as possible to raise their voices and and demand the EEOC collect the data we need to uncover and combat discrimination!
Sample Comment Language
It’s important that you customize this to lift up your own thoughts and concerns. The EEOC will screen out identical comments, so you must personalize this to make it your own.
I strongly oppose the EEOC’s proposed rule, “Removal of Reporting Requirements,” which would end EEO-1 and other vital data collection processes that help uncover and combat workplace discrimination.
This important data allows workers, advocates, and researchers to identify patterns of discrimination and barriers to opportunity, and to conduct investigations. Furthermore, it helps employers examine their own practices and provides researchers, the media, and the public with important information.
Losing access to this data will make it easier for discriminatory practices to proliferate, putting working people at risk of losing pay and opportunities. The EEOC should be protecting workers and fighting discrimination, not removing the tools we need to identify and root it out. I urge the EEOC to abandon this rule and continue collecting vital workplace data.
