Last week, Do No Harm submitted an official comment in support of a proposed rule from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The rule in question would rescind certain racial-reporting requirements to which American employers have been held for 60 years. In doing so, it would eliminate a process that exceeds what Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 authorizes, that cannot survive strict scrutiny, that costs more than a quarter of a billion dollars a year, and that corrodes the merit principle on which American medicine and American business depends.
We strongly support the new rule rescinding these requirements and urge the EEOC to finalize it.
For six decades, the Commission has warned employers that asking an applicant’s race is evidence of discriminatory intent, while in the same breath requiring employers to record the race of everyone they hire. This tension cannot be resolved and must end.
Please read the full comment here or below.
