Word: eeoc
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Budget cuts of more than $300,000 made this year will only exacerbate the manpower shortage. The commission receives the majority of its money from the state, although the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) also contribute to the budget...
...addition, the EEOC pays $400 per employment complaint that it receives and automatically passes along to MCAD for processing. EEOC's annual contribution is based on the previous year's caseload, and the federal agency conducts reviews during the year to see if the funds are adequate, says Renee Devine, communications director for EEOC in Washington...
However, those funds might run short. Devine says Congress has "earmarked" $20 million for the EEOC to distribute to state and local agencies, a cap which the agency may exceed...
...price: $33 a square foot, a third more than neighboring rentals. The biggest tenant: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal agency that is supposed to enforce antidiscrimination laws. Why should taxpayers spend $5.5 million a year to house Government bureaucrats in such lavish premises? For one thing, says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas, lesser quarters "would be sending the wrong signal" and might even cause people not to take the EEOC "seriously." The lease may just send the wrong signal to Congress, which is considering legislation to encourage agencies to move to the less expensive suburbs...
...absolutely sure," Harvard attorney Natasha Lissman asked McWade, "that what they were saying was, 'Harvard refuses to settle unless you withdraw the complaints with the EEOC and MCAD,' and not maybe 'Charlotte Walters, you have the same complaints at Harvard as you do at the EEOC and MCAD--let's settle them at the same time...