Media Mentions

Jan 12, 2017

Christopher DeGroff and Matthew Gagnon were quoted in Bloomberg BNA

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Seyfarth’s annual EEOC-Initiated Litigation report was featured in "EEOC Will Keep Big-Case Focus but May Trim Sails," a January 12 story by Bloomberg BNA. Authored by lawyers Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Christopher J. DeGroff, and Matthew J. Gagnon, this year’s report compiles, analyzes, and categorizes the major case filings and decisions involving the EEOC in 2016.

Degroff said that the EEOC enters 2017 somewhat vulnerable to congressional criticism because its enforcement numbers dropped in fiscal 2016 while its case backlog remained roughly the same, at more than 70,000 pending discrimination charges. Gagnon said that the EEOC’s revised enforcement plan might have been the agency’s biggest event in 2016.

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