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EEOC Statistics Show Drop in Claims Filed in Connecticut

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Litigation

With statistics from the CHRO lacking, it’s hard to get a judge on whether claims of discrimination in Connecticut are rising or falling. The EEOC released new statistics this week, however that shed a little bit of light on the subject, albeit with a fairly small sample size. For FY 2011, the EEOC reported that… Continue Reading

It’s Snow Joke: EEOC Statistics Show Increasing Numbers of Retaliation Cases Filed, But Then What?

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Human Resources (HR) Compliance

News flash: Record snows in Connecticut!  Second news flash: Record numbers of people are out of work and filing complaints of discrimination at the EEOC nationwide! Here’s the thing with both news flashes: They’re not entirely unexpected.  Sure, they’re in higher amounts than we’re accustomed to seeing, but both can be explained. (I’ll leave it… Continue Reading

Employment Discrimination Complaints at CHRO Up Slightly in 2009-2010

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC

The conventional wisdom in a down economy is that employment discrimination claims will skyrocket. While there have been some indications of that at a national level, the numbers in Connecticut tell a very different story. The state agency in Connecticut responsible for investigating discrimination complaints recently released its annual report (download here) for the fiscal… Continue Reading

CHRO Annual Report Shows Surprising Drop in Complaints Filed

By Daniel Schwartz on Posted in CHRO & EEOC, Discrimination & Harassment

With the local economy suffering the effects of the economic recession, the prevailing wisdom of experts has been that the number of discrimination claims filed would continue to skyrocket. However, as I’ve pointed out before, we just haven’t seen that trend in Connecticut play out. New data just released by the Connecticut Commission on Human… Continue Reading