“Cupcakes embedded with nails served at an office potluck. A formal investigation launched after an employee posted her probation notice in the office restrooms.” These are some of the descriptions written by the judge issuing this decision which he referred to as “all in a day’s work” at the General Counsel’s office at HUD.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released its annual performance report for 2014.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is linking the temporary condition of pregnancy to a legal principle usually associated with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which rewrote the rules of access in both the workplace and society as they relate to accommodating people with disabilities. The author discusses how this change could impact federal workers in their workplaces.
Even though the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found discrimination in a below-average number of federal sector cases in fiscal year 2012, agencies ended up paying more to resolve employees’ formal and informal discrimination complaints in that year than in any other year in at least the past decade.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released a new report designed to improve the federal sector complaint process.
According to a new report from the EEOC, the amount of money awarded to complainants who filed EEO appeals was up 18.2% in FY 2012 over the previous fiscal year.
Fewer than 3% of the EEO cases were litigated are lost by agencies. The EEOC tried to put a spin on this disturbing statistic by noting that more than one-fourth of cases are settled and “Many of these resolutions contained favorable outcomes for the complainant, including monetary and non-monetary benefits.”
The author says it is becoming increasingly dangerous to criticize people’s weight. He says federal employees need to consider at what point it becomes unlawful harassment or retaliation when they encounter it in the workplace.
The author analyzes a recent case involving the EEOC which is being hailed as an important decision against what he calls “over-zealous prosecution by government entities.” He says it is evidence that adoption of a legal system under which the losing party pays the other party’s legal fees would be beneficial.
