EEOC Charges Increased in 2022 as Biden Pushes Budget Increase

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission saw the number of employment discrimination charges it received spike by nearly 20% in fiscal year 2022, which comes as the Biden administration has proposed a budget increase for the civil rights agency.

The EEOC received 73,485 new charges in FY 2022, up from 61,331 in FY 2021, according to the agency’s performance report released Monday. The report marks the first time the agency disclosed its charge statistics for the past fiscal year.

The increased workload came “as the nation emerged from the pandemic,” the EEOC said in its announcement. The number of charges ...