Federal Agency Will Examine How to Combat Systemic Racism in First Listening Session to Develop Its Future Strategic Enforcement Plan
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced today that it will hold a listening session in Buffalo, N.Y. on Aug. 22, 2022. The listening session will focus on racial and economic justice and is the first in the agency’s three-part listening series to receive public input regarding priorities and activities that should be included in its Strategic Enforcement Plan for the next five years.
Titled “Advancing Racial and Economic Justice in the Workplace,” the EEOC’s Buffalo listening session will be the first Commission meeting held outside of Washington, D.C. since 2015. The Commission will hear from witnesses on suggestions for addressing racial and economic justice in the agency’s Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for fiscal years 2022-2026. The Strategic Enforcement Plan is the document that outlines the EEOC’s strategic priorities and activities to advance equal opportunity in the workplace.
Buffalo is home to one of the EEOC’s most active local offices and the site of Tops Friendly Supermarket, the grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood where a racially motivated mass shooting claimed the lives of 10 people on May 14. The listening session will take place more than a month after Tops reopens. By holding the meeting in Buffalo, the EEOC affirms its commitment to combating systemic racism and...
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