11/14/2024
“Project 2025 seeks to handcuff the EEOC and eliminate its ability to issue guidance, regulations, and technical assistance that protect workers of U.S.-based employers or companies on U.S. soil from discrimination. It also seeks to rescind existing regulations, calling on the EEOC to “disclaim its regulatory pretensions.” Additionally, under the plan, the EEOC would be barred from collecting and reporting annual employment statistics based on race/ethnicity, which would weaken worker discrimination protections. The plan rescinds protections against s*x discrimination and prohibitions of discrimination based on s*xual orientation, gender identity, and transgender status, while allowing enforcement of exemptions for religious organization so that they may make employment decisions “regardless of nondiscrimination laws.” As a result of these changes, the EEOC would lose much of the power it uses to protect American workers from s*xual harassment and assault on the job, wrongful termination based on disability status, gender pay inequities, and more.”
Far-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the past 60 years.
