The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received just shy of 100,000 charges from citizens during the 2011 fiscal year, the most logged in a single year in the agency's 46-year history, according to a new report. The agency also managed to obtain a historic amount of monetary relief for alleged victims of job discrimination -- $365 million, the most on record.
The EEOC handles cases involving hiring and pay discrimination based on age, race, sex, religion and disability, among other factors. Christine Nazer, an agency spokeswoman, says the EEOC hasn't tried to account for the rise in complaints this year. "We really don't know why our charges increase or decrease, as we haven't conducted any studies," she says.
