In its Performance and Accountability Report for fiscal year 2011, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that it received a record number of discrimination complaints. It reported receiving 99,947 complaints for all types of discrimination, including discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, religion, age and disability, plus claims filed under the Equal Pay Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. In 2011, the EEOC secured more than $364.6 million in monetary benefits through its private sector administrative enforcement activities, the highest level of monetary relief ever obtained by the EEOC through the administrative process.
In 2011, the EEOC field legal units filed 261 lawsuits, including direct suits and interventions alleging violations of the substantive provisions of the statutes enforced by the Commission and suits to enforce administrative settlements. Of these new filings, 162 contained Title VII claims, 80 contained Americans with Disability Act (ADA) claims, 26 contained Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) claims, and 2 contained Equal Pay Act claims. The total number of lawsuits is less than the sum of the suits based on each individual statute as some suits are filed under multiple statutes.
DMEC Legislative Updates 