All posts tagged "Andrea Lucas"

President Donald Trump's appointee Andrea Lucas might not be well known to the public, but she has caused major repercussions in American life with a series of aggressive moves, an analyst argued on Wednesday.

Bryce Covert wrote in an opinion piece for The i Paper about how Lucas has enacted some of Trump's harsh policies after the president took a firm stance against diversity, equity and inclusion policies — vowing during his 2024 campaign to remove these programs throughout his second term.

"The woman Trump appointed to carry those orders out in the American workplace has become one of the most quietly influential figures in America," Covert wrote. "Step forward, Andrea Lucas, who heads the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Lucas has quickly taken up those dictates and toiled to turn them into reality for the country’s workers."...

Some employees with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission feared that being given a day off was part of a Department of Government Efficiency plot to terminate their employment, according to Politico.

The jittery response came after EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas sent an email telling non-emergency employees they did not have to come in to work on April 18, which they later realized was the Christian observance of Good Friday, which comes before Easter Sunday.

Anonymous sources told reporter Nick Niedzwiadek that some employees felt certain the gesture "was a prelude to reduction-in-force notices or other major changes" — just like what happened when Elon Musk's DOGE slashed the Department of Education and USAID. ...