New EEOC National Enforcement Plan FY2025-FY2029: Agency Priorities, Policy Shift, Best Practices for Compliance

This CLE webinar will guide employment practitioners through the EEOC's new National Enforcement Plan Fiscal Years 2025-2029 (NEP) and the areas of agency focus and enforcement activity signaling a major policy shift under the Trump administration. EEOC enforcement priorities under the NEP include a focus on certain DEI-related employment practices, religious accommodation, and disparate treatment claims while eliminating disparate impact theories in investigations. The panel will offer best practices for helping clients identify potential risk areas and create compliance strategies.

In its recently released NEP, the EEOC signals a major policy shift under the Trump administration, rescinding the Biden-era Strategic Enforcement Plan and focusing on new enforcement priorities. Counsel should be aware of the EEOC's investigative priorities to help their clients identify potential risk exposure and develop compliance strategies.

Key areas on which the agency will focus its enforcement activity include: (1) DEI policies, programs, and practices; (2) religious accommodation; (3) disparate treatment claims while working to eliminate disparate impact claims; and (4) claims involving the application or scope of recent Supreme Court cases that have left unresolved issues in order to test or clarify legal boundaries such as the scope of Bostock v. Clayton County with respect to certain issues in the workplace involving sex-based classifications, the scope of liability under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and the application of the "some harm" standard in Muldrow v. St. Louis. 

Listen as our expert panel guides employment practitioners through the EEOC's NEP. The panel will discuss key areas on which the agency will focus enforcement activity so that counsel can best advise their employer clients on policy and procedural developments that will maintain compliance and mitigate risk.