Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an independent federal agency created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, to police a program Equal Employment Opportunity to eliminate discrimination in employment based on race, color, age, sex, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability. EEOC

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

1. An agency established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to investigate racial and sexual discrimination. The National Organization for Women (NOW) was organized in the 1960s when the EEOC failed to act upon the Civil Rights Act's sexual discrimination clause.

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What should be the mission of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?

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The allegations also were investigated by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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At Cal State, a faculty union filed suit Friday in state court after learning the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 2,600 Los Angeles campus employees were turned over to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is investigating employee complaints of campus antisemitism.

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The 1964 Civil Rights Act forbade discrimination in public spaces, like Woolworth counters, while connecting this to hiring freedom from discrimination by establishing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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U.S. workers have filed several complaints before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission about Indian tech giant Tata Consultancy Services, the country’s biggest tech-services firm, alleging the company fired them and replaced them with H-1B workers.

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