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WASHINGTON (AP)—Federal job discrimination complaints filed by workers against private employers shot up 9 percent last year, the biggest annual increase since the early 1990s.

The data being released Wednesday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission show allegations of discrimination based on race, retaliation and sex were the most frequent, continuing a long-term trend.

Overall, the commission said complaints increased from 75,768 charges filed in 2006, to 82,792 last fiscal year. That’s the highest complaint level since 2002, and the biggest annual percentage increase since 1993.

Complaints had been trending downward until 2006, when they increased slightly before spiking last year.

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Allegations of discrimination based on race were the leading category of complaints—30,510 in all, or 37 percent of all filings last year, said the commission, which enforces federal anti-discrimination laws among private employers.

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During 2007, 72,442 private sector discrimination complaints were resolved; the commission recovered approximately $345 million in compensation for those who had filed discrimination charges.

[Editor’s Note: The EEOC’s report “Job Bias Charges Rise 9% In 2007, EEOC Reports,” can be read here. The data appear below.]

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(Posted on March 5, 2008)

Charge Statistics FY 1997 Through FY 2007

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, February 26, 2008

The number for total charges reflects the number of individual charge filings. Because individuals often file charges claiming multiple types of discrimination, the number of total charges for any given fiscal year will be less than the total of the eight types of discrimination listed.

The data are compiled by the Office of Research, Information and Planning from data reported via the quarterly reconciled Data Summary Reports and compiled from EEOC’s Charge Data System and, from FY 2004 forward, EEOC’s Integrated Mission System.

	FY 1997	FY 1998	FY 1999	FY 2000	FY 2001	FY 2002	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007
Total Charges	80,680	79,591	77,444	79,896	80,840	84,442	81,293	79,432	75,428	75,768	82,792
Race	29,199	28,820	28,819	28,945	28,912	29,910	28,526	27,696	26,740	27,238	30,510
	36.2%	36.2%	37.3%	36.2%	35.8%	35.4%	35.1%	34.9%	35.5%	35.9%	37.0%
Sex	24,728	24,454	23,907	25,194	25,140	25,536	24,362	24,249	23,094	23,247	24,826
	30.7%	30.7%	30.9%	31.5%	31.1%	30.2%	30.0%	30.5%	30.6%	30.7%	30.1%
National Origin	6,712	6,778	7,108	7,792	8,025	9,046	8,450	8,361	8,035	8,327	9,396
	8.3%	8.5%	9.2%	9.8%	9.9%	10.7%	10.4%	10.5%	10.7%	11.0%	11.4%
Religion	1,709	1,786	1,811	1,939	2,127	2,572	2,532	2,466	2,340	2,541	2,880
	2.1%	2.2%	2.3%	2.4%	2.6%	3.0%	3.1%	3.1%	3.1%	3.4%	3.5%
Retaliation - All Statutes	18,198	19,114	19,694	21,613	22,257	22,768	22,690	22,740	22,278	22,555	26,663
	22.6%	24.0%	25.4%	27.1%	27.5%	27.0%	27.9%	28.6%	29.5%	29.8%	32.3%
Retaliation - Title VII only	16,394	17,246	17,883	19,753	20,407	20,814	20,615	20,240	19,429	19,560	23,371
	20.3%	21.7%	23.1%	24.7%	25.2%	24.6%	25.4%	25.5%	25.8%	25.8%	28.3%
Age	15,785	15,191	14,141	16,008	17,405	19,921	19,124	17,837	16,585	16,548	19,103
	19.6%	19.1%	18.3%	20.0%	21.5%	23.6%	23.5%	22.5%	22.0%	21.8%	23.2%
Disability	18,108	17,806	17,007	15,864	16,470	15,964	15,377	15,376	14,893	15,575	17,734
	22.4%	22.4%	22.0%	19.9%	20.4%	18.9%	18.9%	19.4%	19.7%	20.6%	21.4%
Equal Pay Act	1,134	1,071	1,044	1,270	1,251	1,256	1,167	1,011	970	861	818
	1.4%	1.3%	1.3%	1.6%	1.5%	1.5%	1.4%	1.3%	1.3%	1.1%	1.0%

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Comments

The EEOC has a warehouse full of rubber stamps and loves to use them against mean ole whitey. No longer is the legal jargon “Innocent until proven guilty” relevant. It is an absolute joke if a White man accuses a Black of racial discrimination or hostility.
We’re on our own.
John

Posted by at 7:17 PM on March 5

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This avenue is better financially for blacks than trying to win the lottery.

Posted by Simon Pure at 7:21 PM on March 5

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This avenue is better financially for blacks than trying to win the lottery.

Posted by Simon Pure at 7:22 PM on March 5

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High self esteem + low ability + a pandering, indulgent White society = perceived discrimination

Posted by Doppelgangbanger at 7:25 PM on March 5

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Strange. You inculcate it into people that they are constantly being violated, even without their realizing it, and they act on every slight that life has to offer.

Posted by Guillaume at 8:52 PM on March 5

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Freedom doesn’t quite mean what it used to mean. The government now DEMANDS you have “diversity” in school, living accommodations, and private worksites. The founding father’s are spinning in their graves. Not because they were racist, male chauvinist pigs, but because they believed we should have the ability to choose who we associated with, at work, at home, and at play. Now we have become “subjects” rather than citizens.

Posted by at 9:19 PM on March 5

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Meanwhile job discrimination against WHITES is INSTITUTIONALIZED and not only is legally permitted, it is LEGALLY MANDATED. Think of it as Jim Crow on steroids targeting whites.

Posted by at 9:59 PM on March 5

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“Racial walking on eggshell”is becoming common so be careful out there.They have the power,,,

Posted by at 12:56 AM on March 6

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Low self esteem, low ability, low IQ, White guilt, black privilege = government-enforced discrimination against Whites.

Posted by at 10:34 AM on March 6

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Even if a white business owner hires a black employee simply because he feels he’s the right person for the job and he has no hostility toward blacks at all - he’s still putting himself in a dangerous position. Any perceived hostility will be interpreted as “racism” by some blacks and expensive lawsuits will follow. As is so common, by attempting to eradicate something, government ends up creating more of it. Anti-discrimination laws end up creating more discrimination (not to mention their direct impact on whites).

Posted by jewamongyou at 1:30 PM on March 6

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And it is going to get worse and will also involve white complaints of reverse discrimination as business continue to shed their workforces.

Posted by underdog at 4:05 PM on March 6

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whites are not allowe to get jobs in this country only go to die in Iraq for BUSH’s war. check this link out in Brooklyn college , if you still put up an American flag after reading this then you need to go to a mental home

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/hamil.htm

Posted by enraged at 11:39 PM on March 6

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They get jobs before Whites and still them complain!

Posted by at 9:59 AM on March 7

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Please keep in mind two things; 1) If you to www.eeoc.gov, you will see that many EEOC charges are filed on bases other than race (e.g., White women filing sex discrimination charges, 40+ White males filing age discrimination charges, etc.) and 2) less than 10% of EEOC charges result in “reasonable cause” determinations (i.e.,individuals bringing charges are victorious less than 10% of the time).

Posted by Minnesota Black at 5:21 PM on March 7

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Whites need to be activist and file complaints at every opportunity. The discrimination against us is blatant and real. Write the Justice Department often as I do and your Senator, Representative, and even local newspapers. Non-violence but persistance will get us our justice!

Posted by Elrey Jones at 6:28 PM on March 10

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