AFPI Urges EEOC to Eliminate Burdensome Employment Reporting Requirements

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) urges the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to finalize its proposed rule eliminating the EEO-1 through EEO-6 reporting requirements and the related federal recordkeeping mandates.

The existing regime requires American employers to spend an estimated 5.2 million hours and $275 million collecting, categorizing, maintaining, and reporting workforce data to the federal government. AFPI’s public comment argues that eliminating those requirements would reduce unnecessary compliance costs while allowing the EEOC to focus its resources on its core mission: investigating and enforcing the law when actual discrimination occurs.

“American businesses should be spending their time hiring workers, serving customers, and growing their companies—not filling out millions of hours’ worth of federal paperwork that does little to protect anyone’s civil rights,” said Ryan Micozzi, AFPI Deputy General Counsel. “The EEOC has an opportunity to remove an outdated regulatory burden, restore the focus on individual merit and equal opportunity, and put government resources where they belong: protecting Americans from actual discrimination. We strongly encourage the Commission to move forward and finalize this common-sense reform.”

AFPI’s comment also argues that the current reporting system unnecessarily pushes employers to sort and measure workers by race and sex rather than focusing on individual qualifications and achievement. Eliminating these mandates would preserve the EEOC’s authority to investigate legitimate allegations of discrimination while ending blanket reporting requirements imposed on employers regardless of whether any allegation exists.

America’s workers and job creators deserve a federal government focused on protecting their rights, not generating paperwork. The EEOC should act.