The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, which is available online at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/digest/index.cfm .
This quarterly publication, prepared by the EEOC's Office of Federal Operations (OFO), features recent agency decisions and federal court cases of interest. The latest edition also includes a special article on Sanctions for Contumacious Conduct.
The Winter 2013 edition of the Digest contains a sampling of summaries of noteworthy decisions selected by OFO from among the volume of decisions issued by EEOC each fiscal year, including topics such as:
- Federal Sector EEO Complaint Processing
- Attorneys' Fees
- Compensatory Damages
- Remedies
- Sanctions
- Settlement Agreements,
- Summary Judgment
- Timeliness
The summaries are not intended to be exhaustive or definitive as to their subject matter, and may not be given the legal weight of case law in citations, they are a good source of relevant information.
In addition to the quarterly Digest, Commission federal sector decisions are available on the EEOC's website at http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/decisions.cfm. There are also updated information updates and news items via Twitter: @EEOC_OFO.