The Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives, on a partisan vote, has joined a closely divided U.S. Senate in passing a bill (Senate Joint Resolution 13) that effectively rescinds the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) new conciliation rules adopted earlier this year. President Biden is expected to sign the bill into law in the coming days.
The soon-to-be-rescinded conciliation rules are designed to establish sensible benchmarks and ensure some level of consistency in determining whether the EEOC has engaged in good faith in the conciliation process established under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Critics, led by Congressional Democrats, claim that the new rules give employers an unfair advantage over a charging party after a discrimination charge is filed.
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