Thanks To #MeToo, It’s Been A Busy Year For The EEOC

More people are coming forward with sexual harassment claims.

By Kathryn Rubino on October 05, 2018 2:34 pm

According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s preliminary data for fiscal year 2018, by what percentage are EEOC sexual harassment lawsuits up over FY 2017?

Hint: Acting EEOC Chair Victoria Lipnic thanked the staff “who stepped up to the heightened demand of the #MeToo movement to make clear that workplace harassment is not only unlawful, it is simply not acceptable.”