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Gerald Maatman Quoted in Workforce Management
08/08/2006

An article entitled “EEOC Chief Leaves Behind Transformed Agency,” in the August 8 issue of Workforce Magazine covers the leadership of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chief Cari Dominguez, who ends her five-year term on August 31. In its own statement, the EEOC said that “Domingeuz’s overhaul of the agency’s field structure increased frontline staff and expanded its presence in high-growth areas. It also touted a ‘historically low inventory of pending charges due to prompt and proficient resolution and an increase of merit findings with record benefits.’"

"’She’s leaving very big shoes to fill,’ says Gerald Maatman Jr., a lawyer with Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago. ‘The agency has become much more visible, much more approachable and much more responsive.’ For instance, cases that used to languish for years are now handled much more quickly. In the process, Dominguez has changed the agency’s disposition into that of an activist enforcing Title VII anti-discrimination laws, according to Maatman. ‘You have the EEOC out there in the fray much more than it was before,’ he says.”