44 Civil Rights Organizations Call on EEOC to Withdraw Proposed Update Undermining Non-Discrimination Protections The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Human Rights Campaign, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the National Women’s Law Center submitted a comment on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Proposed Updated Compliance Manual on Religious Discrimination, which would undermine employment protections for women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people who adhere to minority religious or are non-religious, and those from other minority populations. In response to the Proposed Update, the groups issued the following joint statement: “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Proposed Update would create new and unneeded carveouts and exemptions to workplace discrimination protections for workers in this nation. As published, the proposed update’s flawed and unclear guidance would license discrimination against women, communities of color, LGBTQ people, people of minority faiths and non-religious faiths and other minority groups. The proposed revisions run counter to decades of Title VII case law and the longstanding practices of the EEOC’s mission to defend employees against discrimination.