It is not unusual for a federal enforcement agency with litigation authority such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) to wrap up its fiscal year (FY) by filing a slew of new lawsuits or to announce new settlements to demonstrate that agency lawyers are doing their job. That said, the EEOC may have set a new milestone to close out FY 2022 (October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2022) by filing 31 lawsuits in just the last week of September alone, or nearly one-quarter of the agency’s annual average filings over the last ten years.
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