The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shut down with a bang, filing eight discrimination suits on September 30, the last day of the fiscal year—and the last day that the agency was open for business before the federal government shut down.
One suit, against a seed and fertilizer company, alleges generic discrimination, a new area of enforcement for the EEOC. Another suit against an insurance company alleges race discrimination because an applicant wore dreadlocks, and another, against Red Lobster, claims that multiple women suffered sexual harassment.
