EEOC Commissioner Andrea Lucas Discusses Workplace DEI
Jackson Lewis Principal and Board Member Tanya Bovée interviewed U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner Andrea Lucas at Jackson Lewis’ Workplace Horizons conference in Las Vegas on April 17, 2024. Andrea Lucas has served as a Commissioner on the EEOC since 2020. As part of her work educating employers, employees, and other stakeholders about the laws the EEOC enforces, Commissioner Lucas writes and speaks frequently about hot topics and emerging issues in employment law, including on corporate diversity programs; religious discrimination, accommodation, and inclusion; accommodations for pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions; and disability accommodations . Before her appointment to the EEOC, Commissioner Lucas was a member of the labor and employment and litigation practice groups of Gibson Dunn and was based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Stressing that she spoke on her own behalf and was not communicating official EEOC policy, Commiss...