On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued Directives Transmittal No. 960.001, titled, “Additional Instructions for MD-715 Reporting for 2026,” signed by Chair Andrea R. Lucas.
The Additional Instructions significantly curtail the reporting obligations that federal agencies have maintained for more than two decades under Management Directive 715 (MD-715), the Commission’s primary framework for overseeing federal agency employers’ equal employment opportunity (EEO) programs. The directive relieves agencies of the obligation to report on barrier analysis, diversity and inclusion principles, gender identity, and key demographic workforce data broken down by race, national origin, and gender, and grants agencies broad discretion to omit additional reporting elements they determine to conflict with recent executive orders.
Commissioner Kalpana Kotagal issued a dissenting statement the same day, arguing that the Additional Instructions wrongly repealed… Read the complete article here...
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