https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2023/02/01/4-eeoc-trends-in-house-counsel-need-to-know/
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“While there’s much written about the EEOC, there are some spots in its agenda that are hard to penetrate,” said Chris DeGroff, a Seyfarth Shaw partner who helped write a new report on the agency.
February 01, 2023 at 11:27 AM
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What You Need to Know
- The commission is poised to become Democrat-controlled this year, potentially unleashing a flood of cases.
- The agency has put industries that lack diversity in its sights.
- Courts are still hashing out how far protections for LGBTQ+ employees extend.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed only 95 lawsuits in the fiscal year that ended in September, down from 114 a year ago. But 2023 just might be the year that the agency ratchets up its activity in a big way, according to Seyfarth Shaw’s newly released “EEOC-Initiated Litigation: 2023 Edition.”
The five-person commission is poised to gain a Democratic majority this year, and the agency also has at its disposal a budget of $465 million, a whopping $60 million increase.
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