By Alyssa Rosenberg
August 21, 2008
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported a decrease in discrimination claims filed governmentwide during fiscal 2007 in its annual federal workforce survey released Tuesday.
Agencies have reduced their average claims processing time by 12 days since fiscal 2006, but they've paid out more money to employees who filed discrimination claims. And many agency leaders were not receiving the required briefings or directly overseeing the work of their equal employment opportunity directors.
"I look forward to seeing continued improvement in workforce diversity and complaint processing," EEOC Chairwoman Naomi Earp said.
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