Employers Doubt Pay Equity Goals Outweigh Data Security Risks (1)

When pay equity advocates sued the White House and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for pulling back the pay data reporting portion of an annual workforce survey, they wanted the EEOC to have the ability to direct anti-bias enforcement efforts.

They also wanted to use the data to provide training on how to address pay discrimination charges, Democracy Forward senior counsel Robin Thurston told Bloomberg Law. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against EEOC and the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

Now that a federal judge has ruled that the EEOC can begin ...