The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a draft Strategic Plan for FY 2026–2030 that retains the agency’s three overarching goals: enforcement, outreach and training, and organizational excellence. The draft includes detailed performance metrics covering investigation quality, litigation outcomes, systemic enforcement, intake improvements, outreach activities, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Unlike the EEOC’s National Enforcement Plan (NEP), which sets substantive enforcement priorities, the Strategic Plan focuses on agency operations, resource allocation, and performance measurement. Although less policy-oriented than the NEP, the draft offers a practical window into how the EEOC may direct resources and define success over the next five years.
The plan sets goals for reducing intake backlogs and processing times, consistent with the prior recommendations of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association.
The draft also reaffirms the Commission’s emphasis on systemic enforcement, including measures tied to significant monetary and equitable relief.
The draft is less direct on charge-processing delays. It includes quality and intake metrics, but it does not set targets for resolving charges within specified timeframes or for expanding use of mediation.
CWC plans to submit comments by the July 19 deadline. CWC members can read more here.