The EEOC's FY 2010 Report Confirms The Agency's New Direction

The EEOC just published its FY 2010 statistics. Its FY 2010 Performance and Accountability Report is dated November 15, and was posted on line at the EEOC's website this week. View Report.

The EEOC report demonstrates that more employment discrimination charges are being filed against employers. The EEOC had the highest number of discrimination charges filed in FY 2010 than ever before in its history - 99,922 charges, which was an increase over the levels in 2008 and 2009, which were the highest levels ever since the EEOC's establishment in 1964. The EEOC brought 250 new lawsuits in 2010, and resolved 285 existing cases in 2010 for over $85 million. Overall, the EEOC recovered $319.3 million for allegedly injured parties, an increase of over $25.2 million over the previous year.  These across-the-board increases make good on the EEOC's promises it made last year to reduce its charge backlog.  Acting Chairman Stuart Ishimaru noted in his message at the end of 2009 that the EEOC would address this backlog by "working smarter and harder" in 2010, and noted that this is "just the start."  View Message.

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