The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission


ADA Charges with Compensation as an Issue
(includes concurrent charges with Title VII, EPA, and/or ADEA)
FY 1992 - FY 2001

The following chart represents the total number of charge receipts filed and resolved under the ADA alleging compensation discrimination as an issue (includes issues of wages, retirement benefits, insurance benefits or other compensation).

The data are compiled by the Office of Research, Information, and Planning from EEOC's Charge Data System.

FY 1992 FY 1993 FY 1994 FY 1995 FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001
Receipts 65 1,010 1,317 1,473 1,141 1,242 1,285 1,210 1,274 1,190
Resolutions 5 378 731 1,409 1,459 1,520 1,571 1,534 1,600 1,339
Resolutions By Type
Settlements 0 21 54 61 51 96 77 111 139 129
0.0% 5.6% 7.4% 4.3% 3.5% 6.3% 4.9% 7.2% 8.7% 9.6%
Withdrawals 1 46 83 86 106 60 60 63 75 64
20.0% 12.2% 11.4% 6.1% 7.3% 3.9% 3.8% 4.1% 4.7% 4.8%
Administrative 4 151 321 693 484 462 452 380 320 280
80.0% 39.9% 43.9% 49.2% 33.2% 30.4% 28.8% 24.8% 20.0% 20.9%
No Reasonable Cause 0 145 245 533 783 836 868 774 882 711
0.0% 38.4% 33.5% 37.8% 53.7% 55.0% 55.3% 50.5% 55.1% 53.1%
Reasonable Cause 0 15 28 36 35 66 114 206 184 155
0.0% 4.0% 3.8% 2.6% 2.4% 4.3% 7.3% 13.4% 11.5% 11.6%
Successful Conciliations 0 1 3 5 9 15 29 37 40 53
0.0% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.6% 1.0% 1.8% 2.4% 2.5% 4.0%
Unsuccessful Conciliations 0 14 25 31 26 51 85 169 144 102
0.0% 3.7% 3.4% 2.2% 1.8% 3.4% 5.4% 11.0% 9.0% 7.6%
Merit Resolutions 1 82 165 183 192 222 251 380 398 348
20.0% 21.7% 22.6% 13.0% 13.2% 14.6% 16.0% 24.8% 24.9% 26.0%
Monetary Benefits (millions)* $0.01 $2.2 $3.8 $5.3 $4.6 $4.6 $3.7 $12.4 $8.6 $3.4

* Does not include monetary benefits obtained through litigation.

The total of individual percentages may not always sum to 100% due to rounding.

EEOC total workload includes charges carried over from previous fiscal years, new charge receipts and charges transferred to EEOC from Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). Resolution of charges each year may therefore exceed receipts for that year because workload being resolved is drawn from a combination of pending, new receipts and FEPA transfer charges rather than from new charges only.

8/7/02

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This page was last modified on September 17, 2000.

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