Equal Employment Opportunity: EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) Birmingham Office Closed Discrimination Charges Without Full Investigation

摘要

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that guarantee every American's right to be free from employment discrimination. In September 1985, staff of EEOC's Birmingham, Alabama, district office to meet the office's fiscal year 1985 production goals, were instructed to close discrimination charges without completing full investigations, according to the district office staff in December 1985. Because of their concern that these allegations, if true, were a serious breach of EEOC's responsibilities, the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities requested that GAO investigate these allegations.