Seyfarth Shaw Submits Guidance To The EEOC On Its Quality Control Plan

The EEOC’s Quality Control Plan for investigations and conciliation emerges on the heels of the Commission’s Strategic Enforcement Plan for FY 2013-2016. As we previously reported, the EEOC’s Strategic Plan will function as the blueprint for the Commission’s enforcement activity for the next several years. Because of the Plan’s importance to employers, corporate counsel, and HR professionals, Seyfarth Shaw LLP offered its input on the Strategic Plan from the earliest stages of the EEOC’s drafting process (those submissions are available here, here, here, and here ). Seyfarth was pleased that the final Strategic Plan contemplated the implementation of a Quality Control Plan that will improve the EEOC’s coordination between investigation and legal enforcement functions. The EEOC has indicated that it is hopeful that the Quality Control Plan will increase the timeliness of its investigation administrative charges and the quality of its conciliation efforts.

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