More harassment nationwide
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 95,402 workplace discrimination complaints in 2008. This was a 15 percent increase from the 82,792 complaints made by employees to the federal agency in 2007.
These complaints included:
See the EEOC Statistics page for all the details.
Or, for a visual presentation of bias complaint trends, news agency MSNBC posted a nice chart showing EEOC claims 1998-2008.
These complaints included:
- 28,372 sex discrimination charges
- 13,867 sexual harassment charges (15.9 percent from men)
- 954 Equal Pay Act charges
See the EEOC Statistics page for all the details.
Or, for a visual presentation of bias complaint trends, news agency MSNBC posted a nice chart showing EEOC claims 1998-2008.