©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP EEOC-INITIATED LITIGATION: 2043 EDITION | 3 staff who support those roles). This past year’s pace of hiring at the EEOC is an increase over the hiring that occurred in FY 2022, when the EEOC had 352 hires and 297 “front-line” positions filled. In other words, during FY 2023, the EEOC filled 14% more front-line positions than compared to the previous year. The following table and chart summarize what we know about the EEOC’s headcount from the EEOC’s recent Agency Financial Reports8: “Front Line” Positions Filled Total Hires Total EEOC Headcount at end of FY % Increase, Total Headcount FY 2020 260 1,939 -5.92% FY 2021 “ Predominately front-line” “ More than 450 authorized” 1,927 -0.62% FY 2022 297 352 (authorized) 2,041 5.92% FY 2023 338 493 (actual) 2,173 6.47% Since FY 2021, in its public reports, the EEOC has described its new hires as helping to “address critical service and morale issues by restoring staffing losses in key areas”. The EEOC’s headcount had dipped from a high of 2,202 at the end of FY 2016 during the Obama Administration, down to a low of 1,968 at the end of FY 2018 during the Trump administration. Based on the EEOC’s own projections, in FY 2024, its headcount will approach the high-watermark levels during the Obama administration. With this continued increased pace of hiring and increased prioritization of “front-line” hires, the EEOC continues to build its capacity to increase the pace of its investigation and litigation processes in FY 2024. 8 See U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fiscal Year 2023 Agency Financial Report (Nov. 15, 2023), https://www.eeoc.gov/fiscal-year2023-agency-financial-report; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC Fiscal Year 2022 Agency Financial Report (Nov. 9, 2022), https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc-fiscal-year-2022-agency-financial-report; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fiscal Year 2021 Agency Financial Report (2021), https://www.eeoc.gov/fiscal-year-2021-agency-financial-report; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fiscal Year 2020 Agency Financial Report U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020), https://www.eeoc.gov/fiscal-year-2020-agencyfinancial-report-us-equal-employment-opportunity-commission; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fiscal Year 2019 Agency Financial Report U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2019), https://www.eeoc.gov/fiscal-year-2019-agency-financial-report-us-equalemployment-opportunity-commission; U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2018 (2018), https://www.eeoc.gov/performance-and-accountability-report-fiscal-year-2018. 1,800 1,850 1,900 1,950 2,000 2,050 2,100 2,150 2,200 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 EEOC Employees (FTE) at End of Fiscal Year
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