The economic woes dominating the headlines provide plenty of toughissues for employers. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionhas added one more item for concern – the level of discriminationcharges. Private-sector discrimination charge filings with the EEOCjumped 9 percent in the last fiscal year (2007), the largest annualincrease since the early 1990s. The total number of charges, just fewerthan 83,000, represents the largest number of charges filed since1992.
