Overview

• Lawmakers questioned Lucas at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on her nomination to serve a new five-year term as EEOC commissioner and retain the chair position.
• Democrats on the panel criticized her shift toward investigating corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs and her memorandum deeming the EEOC subject to presidential orders.
• Under Lucas’s acting leadership the agency dropped seven lawsuits representing transgender or nonbinary workers and sought to dismiss a disparate impact case against Sheetz.
• She has openly opposed the EEOC’s guidance on pregnancy accommodations and gender-identity harassment, signaling plans to revisit both rules once confirmed.
• More than 30 civil rights groups and over 200 members of Congress have urged scrutiny of her actions, warning that they undermine the EEOC’s bipartisan and independent mandate.