The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Facts About the Freedom to Compete Initiative

See also: The Freedom to Compete Award

Ensuring America's workers the freedom to compete on a level playing field is the essence of the EEOC's mission. Shifting demographics and changing business environments have reshaped today's workplace, requiring the Commission to adopt strategies that are more responsive to current trends and complexities. The Freedom to Compete Initiative, launched by EEOC 2002, advances the EEOC's mission to prevent and eradicate employment discrimination. Freedom to Compete is designed to build a web of partnerships, liaisons, and alliances that will serve to educate America's workforce, deter potential discrimination and promote compliance and sound employment practices. It is an outreach, education, and coalition-building strategy designed to complement the agency's enforcement and litigation programs.

Since launching the initiative, the EEOC has:

In addition, EEOC has expanded outreach activities with:

EEOC has also addressed some of the common themes and ideas that emerged from stakeholder discussions including:

The Freedom to Compete Initiative continues to be one of the many ways that EEOC is proactively forging strategic alliances and partnerships to create positive changes toward the prevention of discrimination in the workplace.


This page was last modified on August 31, 2006.

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