The lawsuit against Henry's Turkey Service was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Jacqueline Berrien was nominated to serve as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Yet the EEOC is threatening to launch lawsuits if they do not hire those same felons.
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With the help of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), she sued the company for sex discrimination.
The EEOC currently lacks a quorum and cannot fulfill its mandate to protect American workers from discrimination.
Naturally, the EEOC will have no liability for any workplace trouble that results from its new hiring policy.
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The EEOC brought a class action on behalf of approximately 70 Filipino-American workers.
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"This case moved me to great emotion because of the issue of exploitation of vulnerable populations, " EEOC attorney Robert Canino said.
The EEOC cannot engage targets in wars that have no foreseeable end.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has caregiver discrimination on its radar.
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Each year, the EEOC receives between 23, 000 and 25, 000 sex discrimination complaints.
Officially, before employees can file a complaint against their employers, they must first file a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
In 2009 an arbitrator ruled that the EEOC had willfully violated the FLSA by giving its non-exempt workers compensatory time rather than paid overtime.
From that point, until it initiated its lawsuit in 2009, the EEOC alleged it had engaged in continuous activity relating the investigation of the claim.
The percentage of men filing harassment complaints with the EEOC, largely attributed to male-to-male harassment, has risen from 12% in 1997 to 16% in 2010.
It is difficult to overstate the EEOC's zealotry on this issue.
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As the majority of black and Hispanic job applicants have clean legal records, the new EEOC mandate may harm the very groups it purports to help.
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These statistical disparities inspired the EEOC to rewrite the corporate hiring handbook to level the playing field between "protected groups" and the rest of the workforce.
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Most businesses perform criminal background checks on job applicants, but the EEOC guidance frowns on such checks and creates new legal tripwires that could spark federal lawsuits.
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This decision provides defendants with solid case law if they should encounter an unnecessarily prolonged investigation, and suggests the EEOC should pick its battles and fight them expeditiously.
The biggest bombshell in the new guidelines is that businesses complying with state or local laws that require employee background checks can still be targeted for EEOC lawsuits.
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In 2003, when the Wal-Mart litigation was in its preliminary court stages, about 27, 000 sex discrimination claims nationwide were resolved administratively by the EEOC, little changed from the prior decade.
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This is a key issue in a case the EEOC commenced in 2010 against G4S Secure Solutions after the company refused to hire a twice-convicted Pennsylvania thief as a security guard.
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The EEOC's new regime leaves businesses in a Catch-22.
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The EEOC ignored that judicial thrashing and pressed on.
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Yes, the EEOC registered 1, 463 complaints last year.
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While the EEOC reports that it takes, on average, six months to investigate charges of discrimination, an increasing backlog in recent years has resulted in many charges taking far longer to wind their way through the administrative process.
At the same time that the EEOC is practically rewriting the law to add "criminal offender" to the list of protected groups under civil-rights statutes, the agency refuses to disclose whether it uses criminal background checks for its own hiring.
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If a background check discloses a criminal offense, the EEOC expects a company to do an intricate "individualized assessment" that will somehow prove that it has a "business necessity" not to hire the ex-offender (or that his offense disqualifies him for a specific job).
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The EEOC is confident that its guidance will boost minority hiring, but studies published in the University of Chicago Legal Forum and the Journal of Law and Economics have found that businesses are much less likely to hire minority applicants when background checks are banned.
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