Senate HELP Committee Issues Scathing Report On EEOC

Today the Republicans on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions issued a Minority Staff Report entitled, "EEOC: An Agency on the Wrong Track? Litigation Failures, Misfocused Priorities, and Lack of Transparency Raise Concerns about Important Anti-Discrimination Agency."  The report details a host of criticisms of the EEOC, finding, among other things that:

• EEOC's Office of General Counsel frequently initiates litigation without the benefit of a commission vote, noting that only 3 of 122 lawsuits filed in 2012 were brought to the Commission for a vote.
• The litigation it has brought has been ill-founded, noting that the agency has been sanctioned by courts and ordered to pay attorney's fees ten times since 2011 for untenable litigation and litigation strategies.   This has significantly damaged its reputation.