Archive for the ‘EEOC’ Category

The Supreme Court this month resolved a split among the circuit courts regarding Title VII lawsuits and discrimination filings with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin, provides that an employee […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been under court order since 2017 to better explain the rationale behind the incentive portion of the wellness rule it promulgated in 2016. The rule governs employer-sponsored wellness programs and allows employers to offer an incentive equal to 30 percent of the cost of self-only health coverage to […]

In its latest update to its supervising court, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on May 24 detailed plans to coordinate the collection of EEO-1 Pay Data (Component 2 of the annual report) with NORC at the University of Chicago, which describes itself as “an objective non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous […]

Janet Dhillon was approved today by the U.S. Senate on a 50-43 party-line vote to assume the role of chairperson for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The current acting chair, Victoria Lipnic, will remain as a commission member. Dhillon’s approval brings the total number of commissioners to three — out of five possible — […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), pursuit to a federal judge’s order, has published a notice in the Federal Register stating that all affected companies must report their pay data for 2017 and 2018 (Component 2 of the EEO-1 Report) by Sept. 30, 2019. Businesses with at least 100 employees and federal contractors with at […]

UPDATE: Judge Tanya S. Chutkan today approved the EEOC’s new deadline of Sept. 30. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has told a federal judge, who previously ruled the agency must proceed with its once-suspended pay data collection, that it is extending the deadline for Component 2 (pay data) of the EEO-1 Report until Sept. […]

Circuit courts have split on whether gender identity and sexual orientation are protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as have the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The commission maintains Title VII’s protections based on “sex” include gender identity and sexual orientation, while the […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released detailed breakdowns for the 76,418 charges of workplace discrimination the agency received in fiscal year 2018 (down from 84,254 in FY 2017). The comprehensive enforcement and litigation statistics for FY 2018, which ended Sept. 30, 2018, are posted on the agency’s website, which also includes detailed breakdown […]

An Obama-era requirement that affected employers must include employee pay data on their annual EEO-1 reports, once nixed by the Trump Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and then restored by a federal judge, is now pending formal announcement by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEO-1 online reporting portal opened Monday (March 18) […]

A federal district court judge has restored the pay data collection requirement established by the Obama administration and then axed by the Trump Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the District of Columbia District Court ruled that the “previous approval of the revised EEO-1 form shall be in effect,” explaining […]