It’s been a relatively slow year for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), with an unexpected decline in the number of lawsuits filed by the federal agency.
According to EEOC, it filed 110 lawsuits against unlawful employment discrimination in 2024, marking a 24% drop compared to the previous year. Notably, American Disability Act-based lawsuits continue to tick up, with 45 filings, accounting for 41% of EEOC’s lawsuits in this fiscal year. However, some legal experts were expecting more lawsuits would have been filed bythe EEOC this year, given that the commission had a majority of Democratic appointees.
