The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is the federal agency charged with enforcing the nation’s employment discrimination laws, which forbid employers from making employment decisions on the basis of protected characteristics such as race, gender, age, religion and disability. Empowered to investigate charges of discrimination brought by individuals or by the EEOC itself, in appropriate cases it can file suit in its own name against employers.
In recent years, the EEOC dramatically has increased its focus on employers believed to be engaged in broad, systemic discrimination and has made its investigation of systemic cases a top priority. The EEOC defines systemic discrimination as "pattern or practice, policy, or class cases where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area."
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