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Labor/Employment

Jan. 29, 2011

Guarding Against Discrimination Claims

Was last year’s record filing of discrimination charges caused by the “Great Recession?” By Melanie Poturica and Ian A. Wright of Leibert Cassidy Whitmore.


By Melanie Poturica and Ian A. Wright


The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released statistics for 2010 that reveal a nearly 7 percent increase in the total number of filings of private sector employment related discrimination charges since 2009. According to the EEOC, charges filed alleging discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)...

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