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Discrimination Charges Reach All-Time High

The government received more complaints of worker discrimination its last fiscal year than ever before, but it was only a slight increase over 2010. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Jan. 24 that it received 99,947 complaints of worker discrimination during its 2011 fiscal year, which ended in September. That's an increase of 25 complaints over the 2010 fiscal year. Discrimination complaints surged in the 2008 fiscal year, when the agency received 95,402 complaints as the Great Recession was getting under way. The number of complaints fell somewhat in 2009, the year the recession officially ended, but they rose again in 2010 as the economy was recovering slowly. Click here to read more.
 
 



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