Kalpana Kotagal
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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There's not one scrap, not one example.
Right.
of an employer somehow engaging in unlawful discrimination because they've collected and reported this demographic data for 60 years.
They're also making these constitutional arguments under underlying... grounded in the Equal Protection Clause that, again, don't have any basis untethered from Supreme Court precedent.
You know, what this is going to mean in reality, right, is that a short-staffed agency, tight resources to go...
Get this data from employers for particular cases.
Right.
It's going to require more information requests, more subpoenas, you know, more battling in court with employers who aren't going to want to produce it so much for government efficiency.
Right.
Like this is this feels like the exact apotheosis of that.
And I think really is going to just make it harder for the agency to enforce the law to protect workers.
Yeah, there are a bunch, as you might imagine.
Point just to one example.
We just settled a case in May of this year, a $5.5 million settlement involving a big trucking company.
It resolved allegations that for at least a decade, the trucking company had been hiring less qualified male applicants over more qualified female truck driver applicants annually.
And if you look at the court filings in that case, it's quite clear that an analysis of that EEO-1 data is what contributed to the EEOC finding cause that discrimination had occurred, right, and bringing this lawsuit forward.
I think the other thing that is just important to say here is that there's no question that the administration is recognizing the value of getting demographic data when it serves their interests, right?
Last year, the chair of the EEOC demanded that 20 law firms produce a ton of demographic data to the agency, you know, in line with these investigations about their DEI practices.
Yes.
Just recently, the education department has announced that it's going to require universities to produce all kinds of demographic data to so-called test their compliance with SFFA.
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