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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that was established via the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to administer and enforce civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972; Long title: An act to further promote equal employment opportunities for American workers: Enacted by: the 92nd United States Congress: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 92–261: Statutes at Large: 86 Stat. 103: Codification; U.S.C. sections amended
President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Equal employment opportunity is equal opportunity to attain or maintain employment in a company, organization, or other institution. Examples of legislation to foster it or to protect it from eroding include the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist in the protection of United ...
McLane Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 581 U.S. 72 (2017), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a district court's decision whether to enforce or quash a subpoena issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission should be reviewed for abuse of discretion, not de novo.
During 2007 alone, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and related state agencies received 12,510 new charges of sexual harassment on the job. [ 33 ] From 2010 through 2016, men made approximately 17% of sexual harassment complaints filed with the EEOC.
Keith E. Sonderling is an American lawyer and government official. He is the nominee for United States Deputy Secretary of Labor in President Trump's second term. [1] From 2020 to 2024, he served as Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [2]
Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and President Johnson's 1965 Executive Order 11246, the Committee's functions were divided between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (which in 1975 was renamed the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs). [4]
Clayton County and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020), employment protections for LGBT people were patchwork; several states and localities explicitly prohibit harassment and bias in employment decisions on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity, although some only cover ...