Excerpt from The Washington Post: (click for entire article)
Complaints from the federal workforce alleging discrimination by the government increased slightly in the latest figures from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ending a recent downward trend.
The EEOC's Annual Report on the Federal Workforce notes 16,752 complaints alleging employment discrimination filed against the federal government in Fiscal Year 2008 -- up 2.4 percent from the prior year. The complaints were filed against agencies alleging discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability and reprisal.
The increase runs counter to decreases over the previous three years, from 19,024 complaints filed in fiscal 2004. EEOC officials say the increase in 2008 is not cause for alarm, but should be monitored to make sure it does not continue. "It's a modest increase, and the trend is down, but we want to make sure it's not ticking upwards," Dexter Brooks, EEOC director of federal sector programs, said Wednesday.
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