The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2013 kept its litigation focus on cases of alleged systemic discrimination, with particular emphases on disability and pregnancy bias, according to the executive summary of a Seyfarth Shaw annual report on the agencys litigation trends. Employers during 2014 can expect more of the same from the EEOC, as the agency tries to leverage its limited resources by litigating systemic cases, which the EEOC defines as pattern or practice, policy, or class cases where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, occupation, business, or geographic area, the management law firm said in a report made available Jan. 2 to Bloomberg BNA. The bottom line: the EEOC has committed to bringing bigger and better lawsuits, both to its internal stakeholders and the political powers that hold the purse strings, Seyfarth Shaw said in the report. Looking forward to [fiscal year] 2014, we predict that the systemic initiative will continue to be a key driver for the EEOCs enforcement and litigation activity.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:45:07 +0000
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