Progress at the EEOC

This story from the National Law Journal explains that in FY 2011 the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- the federal government's anti-employment-discrimination agency -- recovered a record amount of money ($365 million) for victims of discrimination in cases that it brought against employers. (The EEOC brings relatively few cases. Most cases are brought privately by the alleged victims themselves after the EEOC declines to take on the case.) Moreover, despite receiving more claims of discrmination than ever before in FY 2011, the EEOC worked down its large backlog of cases by about 10%. FY 2011 was the first time since 2002 that the agency had pared down its backlog.