EEOC Mulls Revoking General Counsel’s Litigation Authority (1)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering eliminating its delegation of litigation authority to its Office of General Counsel, sources familiar with the situation told Bloomberg Law.

The agency has traditionally delegated run-of-the-mill workplace discrimination litigation decisions to the general counsel and lawyers at the agency’s field offices. Without that delegation, politically appointed commissioners in the agency’s national office would have to vote on when to commence or intervene in lawsuits.

Currently, cases are only sent for a commission vote if the issues involved will broadly affect many workers, implicate newly developing areas of the law, or might be best ...