EEOC issues FY2024 performance review

On March 11, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its annual performance report on fiscal year (FY) 2023. The report showed the agency recovered $665M in FY2023, more than $150M more than the previous year and $35M more than its record recovery of $513M in FY2020.

Among other items of interest in the FY2023 report, the EEOC:

• Received over 81,000 new charges, a 10% increase over FY2022 and leaving the agency with a total of 51,100 charges pending at the end of the year;

• Filled 493 new positions, bringing the agency to 2,331 employees with most of the new staff being investigators, attorneys, and mediators;

• Filed 143 lawsuits up from 91 in FY2022 with 86 filed on behalf of individuals, 32 on nonsystemic lawsuits, and 25 systemic lawsuits; and

• Resolved more than 370 systemic investigations recovering more than $29M and 14 systemic discrimination lawsuits recovering more than $11.7M for 806 individuals.

In addition, the report showed that EEOC commissioners initiated 35 investigations over harassment; failure to provide insurance; failure to provide religious accommodation; retaliation, coercion and interference with workers’ rights to file EEO complaints; and failure to hire based on race, sex, national origin, disability and record of disability.

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