Last year at this time, we posted some of the statistics set forth in the EEOC’s annual end-of-the-fiscal-year Performance Report (“PAR”).  See http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/index.cfm.

We have just received the latest EEOC annual report for FY 2014 – and we set forth below the relevant results. See the EEOC web site: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/2014par.pdf.

As last year, the EEOC stressed that it “continued to implement its Strategic Plan for FY 2012-2016,” and is implementing its Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP).

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Many metrics are down from FY 2013 – the EEOC explains this as the “effects of sequestration and the government shutdown.”  Last year there was a similar metric decline, which the EEOC attributed to a “decline in staffing and resources the agency faced in FY 2013, including the impact from furloughs.”    Here are the two years compared:

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FY 2013:  93,727 private sector discrimination charges of discrimination

FY 2014:  88,778 private sector discrimination charges of discrimination

 

FY 2013:  EEOC resolved 97,252 charges

FY 2014:  EEOC resolved 87,442 charges

 

FY 2013:  EEOC recovered $372.1 million in monetary relief for charging parties

FY 2014:  EEOC recovered $296.1 million in monetary relief for charging parties

 

FY 2013:  EEOC filed 131 “merits lawsuits,” including 89 individual suits, 21 non-systemic class suits, and 21 systemic suits.  And it had 231 cases on its active docket at year end.

FY 2014:  EEOC filed 133 “merits lawsuits,” including 105 individual suits, 11 non-systemic class suits, and 17 systemic suits.  And it had 228 cases on its active docket at year end.