ACR Project Files Comment in Support of EEOC’s Proposed Rescission of Data Collection Regulations

The ACR Project filed a comment with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “EEOC“) in support of the EEOC’s proposed rule to rescind its existing regulations requiring the compilation and submission of regular forms classifying Americans by race, color, sex, and national origin.  You can read that comment, below.

The EEOC’s proposed rescission would get rid of its existing record keeping, record preservation, and report submission regulations. Should this proposal go forward, the EEOC would no longer require the preparation of current forms EEO-1, EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, EEO-5, or EEO-6.*

In our comment, we suggested ways to strengthen the proposed rule’s reasoning section, while also proposing 1 alteration to the proposal.

The ACR Project offered these comments to assist EEOC in improving the proposal before its final issuance.

* – The EEOC actually hasn’t required the submission of either the EEO-2 or the EEO-6 in decades, while leaving on its books the regulations requiring their preparation and filing.