EEOC-Initiated Litigation - 2022 Edition

14 | EEOC-Initiated Litigation: 2022 Edition © 2022 Seyfarth Shaw LLP Priority #1 - Eliminating Barriers In Recruitment And Hiring The EEOC will focus on recruitment and hiring practices that discriminate against racial, ethnic, religious groups, older workers, women, and people with disabilities. Most of the EEOC’s recent enforcement activity has focused on combatting hiring practices that could result in age discrimination. But this year saw a number of judicial decisions involving the EEOC’s other attempts to combat discrimination, particularly against women. 8 9 6 6 1 51 69 51 33 42 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 Age And Sex Discrimination Filings FY 2017 – FY 2021 Age Discrimination Cases Sex Discrimination Cases