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Discrimination: Private Sector Bias Charges Hit All-Time High

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it received a record 99,947 charges of employment discrimination and obtained $455.6 million in relief through its administrative program and litigation in Fiscal Year 2011. For the second year in a row, despite a record number of receipts, the Commission resolved more charges than it took in with 112,499 resolutions (7,500 more resolutions than FY 2010—an increase of 7%)—leaving 78,136 pending charges, a ten percent decrease in its inventory, the first year the agency has seen a reduction since 2002. Read more.

Discrimination:

• DOL Issues Fact Sheets On Retaliation
• Employer Entitled To Ellerth–Faragher Defense To Harassment Claims 8th Cir.
• Homosexual Employee Failed To Show Transfer Was Due To His Sexual Orientation 1st Cir.
• Male Surgeon's Harassment Of Female Nurse Did Not Violate Title VII 10th Cir.
• Terminated 47 Year Old Bank Employee Failed To Show Pretext For Age Discrimination 3rd Cir.
• Employee Failed To Establish Prima Facie Claim Of Religious Discrimination US Dist Ct., E.D.Va
• Proffered Reasons For Transferring Employee Were Not Pretext For Age Or Disability Discrimination Us Dist Ct., E.D.Ky