Orange County Employment Lawyers Blog
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just released detailed breakdowns of the top employment discrimination claims of fiscal year 2019, which ended in September.
In total, there were nearly 72,700 claims of workplace discrimination filed with the federal agency. That’s down slightly from the nearly 76,500 claims filed with the agency in FY 2018 and more than 84,000 filed in FY 2017.
The top claims were as follows:
- Retaliation
- Disability Discrimination
- Racial Discrimination
- Gender Discrimination
- Age Discrimination
These were followed by claims of discrimination on the basis of national origin, color, religion, equal pay and genetic information. Continue Reading ›