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The EEOC has the authority to investigate and prosecute cases against most organizations, including labor unions and employment agencies, employing 15 workers or more, or, in the case of age discrimination, 20 or more workers. The commissioner of the EEOC can issue charges without a complainant, referred to as a "commissioner's charge."
The Court accepted the EEOC’s test for determining whether a filing constituted a charge as set forth in its amicus curiae brief as well as internal directives, and decided: “In addition to the information required by the regulations, i.e., an allegation and the name of the charged party, if a filing is to be deemed a charge it must be ...
White filed an additional retaliation charge with the EEOC based on the suspension. The anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employer actions that "discriminate against" an employee (or job applicant) because he has "opposed" a practice that Title VII forbids or has "made a charge, testified, assisted ...
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Tung then filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC has a broad Congressional mandate to investigate and remedy employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a). The EEOC requested, subpoenaed, then sued to enforce its subpoena of Tung's ...
The EEOC is supposed to enforce federal antidiscrimination laws, and has long collected demographic data from companies that helps the agency detect discriminatory hiring patterns. Pay was a logical addition: A similar effort in the United Kingdom revealed significant differences in how much men and women earn in a surprising number of fields.
In April 2012, the EEOC published an enforcement guidance [2] requiring companies to establish procedures to show that they are not using criminal records to discriminate by race or national origin. The EEOC indicated that they were investigating "hundreds of charges related to the use of criminal history in employment". [3]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reversed a planned Aug. 30 furlough for all employees, saying it found other ways to economize.