HR Brew: EEOC holds hearing about the future of the equal employment opportunity data collection

August 13. 2026

National Legal Director Melvina Ford is quoted in an HR Brew article about the EEOC’s hearing on the proposed recission of workplace demographic data collection known as EEO-1. ERA testified at a hearing on August 11 in opposition of the recission:

Melvina Ford, national legal director at Equal Rights Advocates, fears that the EEOC will not be able to identify sex-based discrimination without regular data collection. “It’s unclear how the EEOC will effectively and fairly target its outreach and enforcement resources without this data,” she said, adding that the rule change would lead to employer confusion. “To be clear, erasing this data will not erase the discrimination; it will just erase the evidence.”

Read the article.