EEOC Ends Penalties against Agencies for Non-Compliance; Stresses Protections for Accused Officials
Following are two new memos to agencies in which the EEOC said it will stop levying monetary penalties against federal agencies for not complying with its orders and emphasizing that a presumption of innocence applies to officials who have been accused of workplace EEO violations and saying they should not be disciplined without “a substantive finding of misconduct based on objective and credible evidence.”