Workforce Bulletin

By Forrest Read

            In recent years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has taken the aggressive approach of expanding charges it receives from one or a few individuals into larger-scale class actions in federal courts.  Last week, in EEOC v. United Road Towing, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois declined to challenge the adequacy of the EEOC’s administrative practices, thus giving ammunition to the EEOC to continue its approach of widening litigation involving alleged discrimination.

            In that case, the employer, URT, argued that the ...