Lexology.com
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Christopher J. DeGroff and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
USA
September 13 2011
With the end of the EEOC's fiscal year looming on September 30, 2011, employers across the country are feeling the government's urgency to achieve its year-end goals. The last six to eight weeks of the EEOC’s fiscal year - what we call the “Red Zone” - reveals an EEOC that is a beehive of activity on the litigation front. Surprise requests for information in systemic investigations, abrupt conciliation demands (and equally sudden issuances of notices of conciliation failures), and vague but broad “cause” letters of determination coming seemingly out of the blue are blasting out of the EEOC at a frantic pace. Understanding what the EEOC focuses upon during the Red Zone will help employers make sense of what may seem like some very odd behavior by this agency.
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