EEOC leadership has voted to limit the agency general counsel’s authority to unilaterally decide the kinds of discrimination cases it brings against employers, a move that follows an earlier effort to eliminate those decision-making powers.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of General Counsel will now require attorneys in the agency’s 15 district offices to send at least one lawsuit per fiscal year to the commission for a vote to proceed with the case, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by Bloomberg Law. The general counsel also now won’t be able to re-delegate power to the EEOC’s regional ...