EEOC Issues New ‘Digest of EEO Law’

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law

This quarterly publication, prepared by the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations (OFO), features a wide variety of recent Commission decisions and federal court cases of interest. Addition­ally, it contains a special article entitled, Failure to State a Claim: An Overview of the Law & Three Areas of Concern.

“The article on Failure to State a Claim contains information related to the recently released report on dismissals,” said OFO Director Carlton M. Hadden. “We wanted to focus on this import­ant issue to provide a follow-up for our stakeholders.”

The spring 2014 edition of the Digest contains summaries of noteworthy decisions issued by the EEOC. This edition features cases involving attorneys’ fees, compensatory damages, dismissals, findings on the merits, remedies, sanctions, stating a claim, settlement agreements, summary judgment, and timeliness.

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