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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces federal laws against employee discrimination. If you think your employer might have violated your rights by discriminating against you, you can file a complaint with the EEOC and trigger an investigation. Because retaliation is often a concern in discrimination issues,... more »
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency whose goal is ending employment discrimination. The EEOC investigates discrimination complaints based on an individuals race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability and retaliation for reporting and/or opposing a discriminatory practice. The Commission is also tasked with filing suits on behalf of alleged victim(s) of discrimination against employers and as an adjudicatory for claims of discrimination brought against federal agencies.
The EEOCs mandate is specified under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, as amended, 29 U.S.C. 621 et seq. (ADEA); the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. It was established on July 2, 1965, exactly one year after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, under the chairmanship of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., an appointee of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The Acting Chair of the Commission is Stuart J. Ishimaru, who was designated by President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Mr. Ishimaru has been a Commissioner since 2003, and is serving a second term that expires July 1, 2012.
On February 2, 2009, EEOC General Counsel Ronald S. Cooper announced his return to private practice.
Staffing, workload, and backlog
In 1975, when backlog reached more than 100,000 charges to be investigated, President Gerald Fords full requested budget of $62 million was approved.
A "Backlog Unit" was created in 1978 in Philadelphia to resolve the thousands of federal equal employment complaints inherited from the Civil Service Commission.
EEOC, the Departments of Labor and Justice, the Civil Service Commission and the Office of Revenue Sharing adopted Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP).
As of December 2005, full-time staffing of the EEOC has decrease read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal+Employment+Opportunity+Commission
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