The acting chief of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while sidelining certain racial and gender discrimination cases and quashing protections for transgender workers. Andrea Lucas, who was appointed to a second five-year term at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is one of four Labor Department nominees to appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Lucas is an outspoken critic of diversity, equity and inclusion practices. She has moved swiftly to enact President Donald Trump’s civil rights agenda since he abruptly fired two of the EEOC’s Democratic commissioners.
