The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently released its Annual Report on the Federal Workforce for FY 2008.  This report contains a lot of statistical information about EEO complaints and claims of discrimination against Federal Government Agencies.

Here are some interesting numbers from the Report for FY 2008:

1) Out of 8,036 requests for hearing, only 155 resulted in findings of discrimination by an EEOC Administrative Judge (roughly 2%);

2) Approximately 25.5% of EEO hearings resulted in a settlement in FY 2008;

3) [...]

A client of the Attig Law Firm recently learned that an Administrative Judge of the EEOC was issuing a “Default Judgment” and finding of sexual harassment discriminaation against a Federal Agency.

The Default Judgment is a sanction for the Agency’s repeated failure, over approximately 2.5 months, to respond to the Administrative Judge’s Order to provide a copy of the Investigative File.Because the case is still ongoing, the details will not be provided here.

The Administrative Judge has indicated [...]

The Attig Law Firm has posted a survey on its new website, www.FERSDisability.com. The goal of the survey is to help the Firm keep quality legal representation at an affordable rate to Federal Employees and Postal Workers applying for disability retirement.

The survey can be found by clicking on the following link:

ATTORNEY FEE SURVEY – FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement.

Since the results are tabulated by a company we have hired, [...]

A jury in Victoria, Texas has awarded $257,048 to Ramundo Ruiz, a former security officer at the federal courthouse in Victoria, Texas.

Ruiz worked as a federal courthouse guard until 2006, when he was fired after failing a hearing test. Ruiz was not allowed to use a hearing aid in that test. Ruiz can hear well when he wears his hearing aid, and workplace rules permitted him to wear hearing aids while he worked

The [...]

We got another call today from a federal retiree on an issue that is appearing more and more frequently.

The issue is the effect on a retiree’s retirement annuity if they don’t “buy-in” their post-1956 military service credits into their CSRS/FERS retirement.

Here’s how it works. A federal employee who retires after September 7, 1982 is entitled to receive credit, under both the CSRS and Social Security, for any active duty military service performed [...]

July 2007 – A Dallas jury awarded an employee at a Subway Store $66,500 for lost wages and emotional harm and an additional $100,000 in punitive damages in a suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division.

The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed into law in 1990, prohibits private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies, and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with [...]