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PRESS RELEASE
10-19-07

Federal Agency Identifies Internet Fraud Being Perpetrated Against Employers

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) late today notified the business community and general public to a "phishing" e-mail circulating to companies that purports to be from the federal agency regarding a harassment complaint. The bogus e-mail contains a Trojan Horse Virus that is likely to harm a recipient's computer if the user clicks

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PRESS RELEASE
10-19-06

Court Says Jury Should Decide Whether Policy was Reasonable or Unlawful

ST. LOUIS – A federal court ruled today in a nationwide lawsuit that Allstate Insurance Company’s one-year moratorium on rehiring its former sales agents had an adverse impact on older agents, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced.

Judge E. Richard Webber, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in

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PRESS RELEASE
10-19-05

Emergency Preparedness and People with Disabilities: Is the Workplace Ready?

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold its next open meeting on Tuesday, October 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 1801 L Street, N.W., to build awareness of issues that employers of people with disabilities should consider when preparing for emergencies.

At the meeting –

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   Claire Gonzales October 18, 1996                              Reginald Welch                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TDD:   (202) 663-4494 

PRESS RELEASE
10-18-96

WASHINGTON -- The next meeting of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will be Tuesday, October 22, at 2 p.m. in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Conference Room (9th floor), 1801 L Street, N.W.

The public is urged to attend the open session of the meeting in which the

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 MEDIA ADVISORY                 CONTACT: For EEOC FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   David Grinberg October 18, 2005                        (202) 663-4921                                          For Howard University School of Law                                         Homer C. La Rue                                         Professor of Law                                         (202) 806-8259 

PRESS RELEASE
10-18-05

Event will Feature Tribute to the Late Charles T. Duncan, EEOC's First General Counsel, and Former Dean of Howard University School of Law

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Howard University School

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PRESS RELEASE
10-17-05

New Document Sheds Light on Little-Known ADA Provision

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a question-and-answer-style document about a little-known but significant provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that protects applicants and employees from discrimination based on their association with people with disabilities.  The document, entitled "Questions and Answers about the Association Provision of the Americans with Disabilities

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PRESS RELEASE
10-17-03

Commissioner Paul Steven Miller of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will make his second trip in as many years to the Middle East next week to share his expertise on the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and related disability issues during a conference in Amman, Jordan.

The two-day conference on October 20-21 is entitled "Roundtable Expert Dialogue

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PRESS RELEASE
10-17-01

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today re-opened for business at a temporary Manhattan location, restoring essential agency services to residents of the New York area. New contact information is available to the public.

The EEOC's New York District Office had been located on the 18th floor of Building 7 of the World Trade Center and was destroyed, along with case files and

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PRESS RELEASE
10-16-97

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that its Internet home page now includes a small business information fact sheet highlighting select issues of particular interest to small businesses. The new fact sheet can be found by clicking on "Facts About Employment Discrimination" under the EEOC's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.eeoc.gov

"The small business addition

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PRESS RELEASE
10-16-07

Hispanic Employees Paid Less Than Non-Hispanics, Denied Promotion and Health Benefits, Federal Agency Says

NEW YORK – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed a complaint and entered into a consent decree in federal district court with B & H Foto and Electronics Corp., resolving a national origin discrimination case on behalf of Hispanic workers at one of the largest retail sellers of photographic

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EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez delivers remarks
during a National Disability Mentoring Day event.

PRESS RELEASE
10-16-02

Remarks Part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month Observance

WASHINGTON - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today called on government and business to increase their hiring and mentoring of young people with disabilities at a National Disability Mentoring Day event co-sponsored by the U.S. Department

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PRESS RELEASE
10-13-04

New Data Show Declining Processing Time and Inventory for Hearings and Appeals; Increasing Monetary Benefits for Victims

WASHINGTON - Discrimination complaints filed by federal employees and applicants against Cabinet departments and agencies are being processed faster by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the pending inventory of hearings and appeals has been reduced, and monetary benefits have increased, according to preliminary data for Fiscal Year

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE         Media Contacts:  David Grinberg October 12, 2005                               (202) 663-4921                                Program Contact: Jay Friedman                                                (202) 419-0577                                           TTY: (202) 663-7124                                                freedom.award@eeoc.gov 

PRESS RELEASE
10-12-05

Honoring Best Practices that Promote Fair and Open Competition in the Workplace

WASHINGTON - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today launched the EEOC's second annual "Freedom to Compete Award", announcing that the agency will accept nominations through Jan

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PRESS RELEASE
10-11-07

WASHINGTON – Naomi C. Earp, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced the formation of an Asian American and Pacific Islander Work Group that will examine this community’s concerns about federal sector employment, special emphasis programs and the complaints process.

“The work group will be tackling these urgent and vexing problems which the Commission plans to address at a meeting to be

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PRESS RELEASE
10-11-02

WASHINGTON - Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced a new web page describing the agency's role in coordinating the federal government's efforts to eradicate discrimination in the American workplace. The web page, which may be accessed through www.eeoc.gov, highlights the EEOC's leadership in ensuring that federal agencies work together in opposition to workplace discrimination.

"The federal effort to

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PRESS RELEASE
10-11-00

WASHINGTON - Ida L. Castro, Chairwoman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today acknowledged and praised the outstanding work of former Commissioner Reginald E. Jones as he prepares to depart from the agency. Mr. Jones, who served as a Commissioner from July 1996 until his term expired in July 2000, recently requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for an additional term and

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                     CONTACT:  Claire Gonzales October 10, 1995                                    Reginald Welch                                                     (202) 663-4900                                                     TDD: (202) 663-4494  

PRESS RELEASE
10-10-95

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a final version of its "ADA Enforcement Guidance: Preemployment Disability-Related Questions and Medical Examinations." The guidance covers the Americans with Disabilities Act's restrictions on preemployment disability-related questions and medical examinations of applicants.

Under the law

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PRESS RELEASE
10-10-02

Large Class of Female Employees to Receive Benefits Estimated in Millions of Dollars

NEW YORK - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a Consent Decree in a major class action lawsuit alleging pregnancy discrimination against Verizon predecessor telephone companies NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. Under the settlement

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              CONTACT:   William J. White, Jr. October 1, 1997                               Reginald Welch                                               (202) 663-4900                                               TDD:   (202) 663-4494 

PRESS RELEASE
10-1-97

WASHINGTON -- In a letter to the White House today, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Gilbert F. Casellas informed President Clinton that he would resign from the agency effective at the end of this year. Chairman Casellas will be leaving the Administration after more than four

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PRESS RELEASE
10-1-07

EEOC Settles Suit Charging Male Former Regional Vice President With Victimizing Male Former Senior Accounts Executive

MIAMI – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced that United HealthCare of Florida, Inc. will pay $1.8 million to settle a same-sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit charging that the male former regional vice president of key accounts subjected a male former top senior account executive to repeated

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PRESS RELEASE
10-1-04

Influential Civil Rights Group Thanks Commission for its 'Landmark Contributions'

DEARBORN, Michigan On Saturday evening, October 2, Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will accept the distinguished "Friend In Government" award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a prominent national civil rights advocacy group, at the ADC's annual banquet at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan.

The award is

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PRESS RELEASE
10-02-03

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Seated at the table are Albertsons General Counsel John G. Simms and EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez. In the background, from left to right, are: Tana Cory from Congressman Butch Otter's Office Nikki Watts from Congressman Mike Simpson's Office Leslie Goddard, Executive Director, Idaho Human Rights Commission Jeannette Leino, Seattle District Director, EEOC Brenda Maynard from Senator Larry Craig's Office.

Food and Drug Retailer Joins Growing

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PRESS RELEASE
10-01-01

Voluntary Agreement Resolves Allegations of Discrimination

HOUSTON -- The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Eagle Global Logistics f/k/a Eagle U.S.A. Airfreight, Inc., announced today that they have reached a $9,000,000 voluntary settlement which has been submitted for approval by U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Hughes in Houston, Texas. The settlement through a Consent Decree avoids protracted litigation by the EEOC on behalf of a

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PRESS RELEASE
1-9-09

Barriers and Misperceptions Persist; Low Participation in Senior Ranks

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a comprehensive report prepared by the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Work Group containing findings and a series of practical recommendations for EEOC Chair Naomi C. Earp’s consideration. These recommendations address AAPI issues related to federal sector employment, special emphasis programs and the complaints process