EEOC Annual Report Shows Increasing Focus On Systematic Discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued its Fiscal Year 2014 Performance and Accountability Report ("the Report"), detailing the Agency's accomplishments during the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2014. Overall, the number of charge filings and monetary recoveries by the EEOC are down compared to FY 2013, but the Report describes the EEOC's increased focus on systematic enforcement.

The EEOC received 88,778 private sector charges during FY 2014, a decrease of approximately 5,000 from the prior year. The number of charges filed with the EEOC has steadily decreased the past three consecutive years, after reaching a peak of 99,447 in FY 2011.

Through its administrative enforcement activities, the EEOC secured $296.1 million in monetary relief for victims of employment discrimination in private sector, state, or local workplaces, down from the record high of $372.1 in FY 2013. The EEOC also secured $22.5 million in monetary relief for