The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission managed to do more with less in 2012, according to a report released Jan. 29 by Seyfarth Shaw that showed the agency scored a record haul from discrimination claims in 2012 even as it brought sharply fewer cases.
The study found that the EEOC collected $365.4 million in recoveries from discrimination claims in fiscal year 2012-a $700,000 increase over 2011. According to Seyfarth, the highest-ever total is a result of the EEOC’s increased focus on pursuing larger, lengthier systemic discrimination cases, which the commission defines as "pattern or practice, policy, or class cases where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, occupation, business, or geographic area." By the end of the 2012 fiscal year, systemic suits accounted for 20 percent of all of the EEOC’s active merit suits, a proportion that easily eclipsed the 14 percent reported last year. And the commission only expects that proportion to grow: Its strategic enforcement plan predicts that systemic filings will account for 22-24 percent of all pending lawsuits by fiscal year 2016.
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