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“We don’t have a narrower mandate. We have a broader mandate.”

At the Fortune Workplace Summit, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas defended the agency’s approach to workplace discrimination enforcement under the Trump administration, saying the EEOC is continuing to pursue claims on behalf of workers “of every single race and both sexes” rather than prioritizing one group over another.

“We are opening the door to more people.”

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00:00I push back. We don't have a narrower mandate. We have a broader mandate.
00:04How so?
00:04Yeah, well, I understand that people have pitched that the civil rights agenda of the Trump administration has narrowed the
00:10aperture.
00:10And I would say it's widening it.
00:12We are continuing to do discrimination work on behalf of workers of every single race and both sexes.
00:18But we're not going to only pick and choose historically underrepresented groups or only women.
00:24We're going to say it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman, whether you're black, white, Asian, Hispanic.
00:29You pick it. We are going to be fighting for you based on the merit of your claim.
00:34So, again, we're continuing to have record recoveries.
00:38If we had narrowed the aperture, you wouldn't get that.
00:40We just recovered. The vast majority of our work is confidential.
00:44We have a small portion of our work that goes into litigation, but most of it happens before we ever
00:48get to litigation.
00:49We got recovered the highest amount of money for victims of discrimination in the agency's history in 60 years, $528
00:56million.
00:56If we had narrowed the aperture, how would we recover that?
01:00So by saying not narrowing, so you're not prioritizing one group over the other?
01:06No, we're working.
01:07But look, we are opening the door to more people.
01:11There you go.
01:11Ah.
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