EEOC Commissioner Janet Dhillon Resigns, Ending Republican Majority

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) Commissioner and former Chair Janet Dhillon, one of the three Republican Commissioners on the five-member Commission, resigned her seat effective November 18, 2022. As a result, Republicans no longer compose a majority on the Commission, a tactical advantage they had enjoyed since September 2020. From a practical standpoint, Ms. Dhillon’s tenure on the...

New GAO Report Details Inconsistencies in EEOC Charge Intake Processing, Other Areas

The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the research and investigatory arm of the U.S. Congress, has released a new report looking at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC or Commission) charge intake and processing operations. And while the report ostensibly focuses on inconsistencies in the intake process, it also points out wide variations in the average time it takes the...

EEOC Releases Draft 2022-2026 “Strategic Plan” for Public Comment

As anticipated, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) has published its draft “Strategic Plan” for fiscal years (FY) 2022-2026 for public comment. The high-level Strategic Plan (Plan), once adopted, is designed to outline the EEOC’s enforcement and management goals over the next five years, and the strategy for achieving them. More specifics as to how the EEOC...

EEOC Ends Fiscal Year 2022 With a Flurry of New Lawsuits

It is not unusual for a federal enforcement agency with litigation authority such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) to wrap up its fiscal year (FY) by filing a slew of new lawsuits or to announce new settlements to demonstrate that agency lawyers are doing their job. That said, the EEOC may have set a new milestone...

Labor Department Files Two OFCCP Lawsuits, Doubling Previous Total

Despite the fact that we fully expected the Biden Administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) to be aggressive in filing formal enforcement actions against federal contractors for failure to comply with requirements imposed by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), there had been only two OFCCP-related lawsuits filed by DOL since President Biden took office – until now....