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Employment Discrimination – Private Attorney Referral Program
30.005
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a) To assist individuals who have filed a charge with the Commission, or on whose behalf a charge has been filed, by providing referrals to private lawyers; and (b) to provide technical assistance to individuals alleging employment discrimination and their attorneys under Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act cases.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
In fiscal year 2016, EEOC field legal units filed 86 merits lawsuits, including 58 individual suits, 11 non-systemic suits with multiple victims, and 18 systemic suits. Merits lawsuits are direct suits or interventions alleging violations of the substantive provisions of the statutes enforced by EEOC and suits to enforce administrative settlements. These merits filings alleged violations covering a wide variety of bases, including disability (36), sex (25), retaliation (24), race (10), religion (6), national origin (5), age (2), and genetic information (2). The issues raised most frequently in these suits were discharge (48), hiring (22), reasonable accommodation (17), and harassment (11). At the end of fiscal year 2016, EEOC had 166 cases on its active district court docket, of which 30 (18.1 percent) were non-systemic multiple victim cases and 47 (28.3 percent) involved challenges to systemic discrimination. The agency also filed 28 subpoena enforcement actions. EEOC’s legal staff resolved 139 merits lawsuits in the federal district courts for a total monetary recovery of $52.2 million. EEOC achieved a favorable resolution in 90.6 percent of all district court resolutions. A total of 8,489 individuals received monetary relief as a direct result of EEOC lawsuit resolutions. The Commission also resolved 32 subpoena enforcement actions during the fiscal year.
Fiscal Year 2016: EEOC received 91,503 charges alleging discrimination in employment, resolved 97,443 charges and obtained monetary benefits of $348 million. Fiscal Year 2017: No Current Data Available; Fiscal Year 2018: No Current Data Available.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
