Republican EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has issued new memos that bar monetary sanctions against agencies in federal sector workforce discrimination cases and seek to preserve the “presumption of innocence” of those accused of bias.
Lucas’s two memos will change aspects of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s work in the process of adjudicating federal sector cases, which the civil rights agency tackles in addition to accepting charges from private sector workers claiming Civil Rights Act violations.
The EEOC will no longer impose monetary penalties on federal agencies that fail to comply with the commission’s orders in administrative proceedings, according to ...
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