This Just In: EEOC Reports Slight Decline In Discrimination Charges for 2005

EEOC just reported its FY 2005 employment discrimination statistics.

Of great interest was the fact that discrimination charges filed totaled 75,428, a decline of about 5% from the previous year. Otherwise, I don’t think there are any big (or even small) surprises.

The two most common charges are:

race and sex discrimination.

The two least common charges are:

religious discrimination and equal pay charges.

Commenting on the slight decline in the number of employment discrimination charges, one should note that there was really little change as one individual can file multiple charges, so there may not have been fewer people filing charges.

A large percentage of discrimination cases are judged to have no reasonable cause (about 62%), while only 5.7% are judged to have reasonable cause. Other discrimination cases are assigned administrative closures or get dealt with in other ways.

Go here for the press release on EEOC’s FY 2005 statistics.

For a year-by-year comparison of discrimination charges filed, see this chart.

And, for a gateway to a wealth of EEOC discrimination statistics, go to this Enforcement Statistics and Litigation links page.

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