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Dear John,
The fight for equal pay has been long and hard. But the Trump administration is determined to make it even harder.
Trump’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) wants to stop the EEO-1 pay data collection initiative, making it easier for employers to hide discriminatory pay gaps.
But the EEOC first has to ask the public for comments about whether they should continue to collect the data. And that’s where you come in! We need everyone who cares about closing race and gender wage gaps to write a comment today!
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Tell the EEOC: Keep Collecting Pay Data
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The EEOC has to read each one of our comments on its proposal to stop collecting pay data from employers. Go on the record opposing its plan to abandon the EEO-1 pay data collection again.
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Race and gender wage gaps are especially harmful today, against the backdrop the COVID-19 pandemic. Women of color in particular are left with no financial cushion to deal with job loss, in the face of high costs for emergency health care and medication, rent or mortgages, rising prices for supplies or food, and other expenses exacerbated by this global health crisis.
We can’t end pay discrimination and close wage gaps if employers can hide the fact they are paying women and people of color less. Right now, the EEOC is listening to employers and not the working people it should be fighting for. Let’s make sure they hear from us too. Submit your comment to the EEOC today.
If you’re thinking, “Didn’t we do this already?” You’re not wrong. This has been a long battle. Back in 2017, the administration violated the law by abruptly abandoning the original EEO-1 pay data collection initiative begun under President Obama. After we sued the administration and won, a judge ordered the EEOC to finally collect pay data from employers on the basis of gender, race, and ethnicity.
But before companies had even finished submitting their information, the EEOC announced it wouldn’t continue the pay data collection in the future because it’s too “burdensome” for employers. And worse — the administration has so far refused to even analyze the data it did collect. In other words, the very parts of the government that are supposed to find and stop pay discrimination are making it easier for employers to cover it up.
But we won’t let them get away with it. Please take a minute to submit your comment and demand the EEOC continue the EEO-1 pay data collection.
Sincerely,
Emily Martin (she/her/hers)
Vice President for Education and Workplace Justice
National Women's Law Center
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