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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Who is the EEOC?

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EEOC is the federal agency that enforces the laws against job discrimination and harassment. Each year, we process about 80,000 job discrimination complaints. We also work with about 90 state and local agencies who investigate an additional 50,000 job discrimination complaints.