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Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Barbara A. Lee
USA
January 24, 2012
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that it plans to expand and devote additional resources to its “systemic discrimination enforcement initiative.” The EEOC’s Draft Strategic Plan for 2012-2016 builds on its “Systemic Enforcement Program,” initiated in 2008, whose purpose is to leverage limited EEOC resources to focus on “high impact” lawsuits that will “eradicate discriminatory policies and practices while obtaining relief for large numbers of individuals.” To that end, the EEOC has been scrutinizing, and will increase its attention to, the employment practices of regional and nationwide companies, entire industries, or large employers with operations in many states.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
In the red-zone with the EEOC: effects of the end of the EEOC's fiscal year
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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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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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