EEOC News
Tesla Agrees to Mediation in Quest to Resolve U.S. Agency’s Racism Lawsuit
Tesla agreed to enter mediation that could resolve the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's electric car maker of tolerating severe and widespread harassment of ...
Head of Workplace Rights Agency Urges White Men to Report Discrimination
The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex ...
Civil Rights Agency Drops a Key Tool Used to Investigate Workplace Discrimination
The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don't explicitly discriminate but may ...
Corporations and Disparate Impact Liability
President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called "disparate ...
U.S. High Court Poised to Lower Bar for ‘Reverse Discrimination’ Suits
U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to lean on Wednesday toward making it easier for people from "majority backgrounds," such as white or straight people, to pursue workplace discrimination claims, ...
EEOC Seeks to Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases
Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement, the federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss six of its own cases on behalf of workers alleging gender ...
Tutoring Firm Settles EEOC’s First Lawsuit Targeting AI Software Bias
A China-based tutoring company has agreed to settle a U.S. government agency's novel lawsuit claiming it used hiring software powered by artificial intelligence to illegally weed out older job ...
EEOC Warns Employers to Check AI Workplace Monitoring Tools for Bias
The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial intelligence-driven "bossware" tools that closely track the whereabouts, keystrokes and productivity ...