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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finished fiscal year 2011 with a record number of charges and the highest amount in administrative settlements, the agency reported in its annual Performance and Accountability Report.
The EEOC received a record 99,947 charges of discrimination in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, the highest number of charges in the agency’s 46-year history. EEOC staff also delivered historic relief through administrative enforcement—more than $364.6 million in monetary benefits. This is also the highest level obtained in the Commission’s history. The fiscal year ended with 78,136 pending charges—a decrease of 8,202 charges, or ten percent. In previous years, the pending inventory had increased.
At the end of the fiscal year, there were 580 systemic investigations involving more than 2,000 charges under way. EEOC field legal units filed 261 lawsuits—23 of which involved systemic allegations affecting large numbers of people; 61 had multiple victims (less than 20); and 177 were individual lawsuits.
The EEOC’s private sector national mediation program also achieved historic highs, obtaining more than $170 million in monetary benefits for complainants, and securing the highest number of resolutions in the history of the program—9,831. This is five percent more than the number of resolutions reported in fiscal year 2010.
In the federal sector, where the EEOC has different enforcement obligations, the Commission resolved a total of 7,672 requests for hearings, securing more than $58 million in relief for parties who requested hearings. It also resolved 4,510 appeals from final agency determinations.
The EEOC’s FY 2011 report is posted on the agency’s web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/index.cfm.
See also:
http://eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-15-11a.cfm
http://www.shrm.org/hrdisciplines/employeerelations/articles/Pages/ChargesFiledwithEEOCHitRecord.aspx
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