On June 29, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its 1979 Affirmative Action Guidelines and the related Compliance Manual on Affirmative Action.1 The Commission based the decision on their findings that the Affirmative Action Guidelines no longer conformed with the text of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and contradicted Supreme Court precedents that followed the issuance of the guidelines.2 The current EEOC determined that the voluntary affirmative action plans contradicted with the Supreme Court’s interpretation that Title VII extends the same protections to every individual.3 The EEOC published its final rule on July 6, 2026, removing the Affirmative Action Guidelines from the Code of Federal Regulations immediately.
The Affirmative Action Guidelines, formally known as “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as Amended” served as the framework for private employers to voluntarily adopt… Read the complete article here...
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