In fiscal year 2008, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received over 95,000 new private-sector charges of discrimination–a 15.2 percent jump over the prior fiscal year.
The information on the year ended Sept. 30, 2008 is available in the "Fiscal Year 2008 Performance and Accountability Report," posted on the EEOC's Web site, (http://www.eeoc.gov/abouteeoc/plan/par/2008/par2008.pdf), which also provides an update on efforts of the EEOC's mediation program.
For employment practices liability insurance professionals who track EEOC charge statistics, the new charge numbers indicate the continuation of an upward trend that started in fiscal year 2007, when the agency reported the largest increase since fiscal year 1993–an increase of 9 percent.
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