IMS was initially designed as a system for creating charge related documents and tracking these charges. It has also been utilized for research efforts both by EEOC and academic researchers.

Basic data is entered during the initial receipt of the charge. This includes information about the allegations, the charging party and the Respondent. During this initial stage, efforts are also made to link the charge to EEO-1 reports in order to get a consistent identification of the employer.

As the investigation proceeds, actions are added to enable the tracking of the charge

Question 1How many charges of harassment did we

receive in the private sector over the past five years, broken down by year?  (All harassment charges)

Question 2How many charges of harassment did we

receive on each basis:  age, sex, national origin, race, disability, religion, other?  Again, over the past five years and then broken by year.

  FY 2010 FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2014 Cumulative Rate of Change

TOTAL** 27,356 27,270 26,777 26,756 26,820 134,979 -1.96%Race 8,798 9,010 8,587 8,693 9,023 44,111 2.56%Sex 12,695 12,461 12,569 12,379 12,146 62,250 -4.32%National Origin 3,643 4,029 3,588 3,513 3,446 18,219 -5.41%Religion 1,362 1,691 1,347 1,290 1,344 7,034 -1.32%Color 895 961 928 934 1,056 4,774 17.99%

*Includes charges where harassment and/or sexual harassment are alleged.** Charges may be filed alleging multiple statutes and basesCompiled by ORIP: 6/9/2015

DISABILITY FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 RATE OF CHANGETotal Harassment Charges* 4,159 4,155 4,461 4,567 4,930

18.54%Retaliation

1501 1565 1744 1814 205636.98%

Other Disability880 991 1172 1218 1338

52.05%Regarded As Disabled 448 441 442 458 514

14.73%Other Anxiety Disorder 333 354 384 398 485

45.65%Depression

388 402 362 394 43712.63%

Nonparalytic Orthopedic Impairment

296 291 341 329 35921.28%

Record Of Disability253 262 258 273 356

40.71%Orthopedic/Structural Back Impairment

333 312 309 304 3484.50%

Are there any trends?  Any hypotheses for why these trends exist?

DECREASE in harassment charges from FY 2010 to FY 2014 (rate of change):

Religion 1.32% Total 1.96% Sex 4.32% National 5.41%

INCREASE in harassment charges from FY 2010 to FY 2014 (rate of change):

ADEA 9.97% Retaliation (all statutes) 11.96% ADA 17.70% Color 17.99% EPA 41.77%

*Note: However, the trend in GINA charges is not reported as it did not take effect until November 21, 2009.

What percentage of our litigation docket involves harassment claims?

 # Harassment Cases Filed

% Harassment Cases Filed

FY10 99 39.6%

FY11 88 33.7%

FY12 22 18.0%

FY13 27 20.6%

FY14 35 26.3%*Includes cases where harassment and/or sexual harassment are alleged.Source: OGC – 6/1/15

EEOC Harassment Cases Filed FY 2010 – FY 2014

Have we learned anything about harassment from the researchers with whom we share our data?• People with physical impairments appear to have lower harassment

allegation rates than people with behavioral disabilities. - Shaw, L. R., Chan, F., & McMahon, B. T. (2012)

• Women, minorities, and people with behavioral disabilities are more likely to file harassment charges. Educational Services or Public Administration were found to be more likely to file harassment charges than employees who work for other types of business and industry. Companies with 500+ employees were more likely to have harassment lawsuits. - Shaw, L. R., Chan, F., McMahon, B. T., & Kim, J. H. (2012)

• Managerial awareness of disability practices and understanding of how, when, and why they need to be used is low. This may influence experiences of harassment for people with disabilities. - Lisa H. Nishii, PhD & Susanne M. Bruyere, PhD, Cornell University (2015)

Do you have any suggestions for further research?

ORIP’S draft Research and Data Plan proposes that ORIP will produce a demographic profile based on Census data to identify concentrations of immigrant workers and a set of EEO-1 reports for each District to identify the most prevalent industries of workers with broad racial and ethnic profiles believed to be vulnerable to discrimination, such as Hispanic women in crop production. ORIP will also explore the possibility of identifying concentrations of workers with disabilities by industry and geography.