The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has hit a 10-year low in the number of suits filed during FY2025. The EEOC filed 93 suits in FY2025, one of the lowest numbers in the past 30 years.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has hit a 10-year low in the number of suits filed during FY2025. The EEOC filed 93 suits in FY2025, one of the lowest numbers in the past 30 years. In contrast, the EEOC filed 71 suits in just one month of FY2023.
Following the typical pattern, the EEOC's FY2025 suits were primarily filed under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Although the third-largest group of EEOC suits historically has been filed under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), these suits were overshadowed by pregnancy discrimination cases in FY2025.
Furthermore, EEOC filings concerning race or national origin discrimination dropped to three from 14 in FY2024, 27 in FY2023, and 17 in FY2022, reaching a 10-year low. Two of the three cases were based on theories of reverse discrimination. As race and national origin have historically been a stable source of discrimination cases for the EEOC, the drop is seen as significant. Similarly, the EEOC filed four religious discrimination cases in FY2024 and 11 in FY2025, after nearly 14,000 cases in FY2022. The acting chair of the EEOC has also commented in the past that "woke policies" have overshadowed workers' religious protections, but that the agency intended to...
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