The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) recently held a virtual public hearing to examine what the agency characterizes as the “severe and pervasive” discrimination and harassment against women and racial and ethnic minorities that has occurred in the U.S. construction industry.
The hearing comes in the wake of the enactment last year of massive federal infrastructure legislation, which is expected to substantially increase the number of multi-million-dollar federal construction project contracts and the employment associated with those contracts.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.