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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT

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This paper is intended to shed light to the author on a Federal government website in lieu

to its usefulness in human resource management. In this paper, the Federal government website

of choice which will be critically analyzed is the The Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission (EEOC) website. Some of the areas of interest in this report are the specific

commercial, trade, legislative, regulatory or statistical information in the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission website, which are useful in business planning, strategy and legal

compliance.

Purpose and Function of EEOC

There are several forms of discrimination, which include but not limited to discrimination

against an individual based on their gender, age, race, color, disability, pregnancy or religion. As

such, Federal government responsibility through EEOC is mandated to ensure that it enforces

Federal laws which make discrimination of any form illegal (U.S Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission, 2016). EEOC headquarters is in Washington D.C and has 53 field

offices. According to the, U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2016), its mission

is to prevent any form of discrimination at work and also provide solutions towards alleviation of

discrimination with the view of promotion of a just and equal treatment in all work environs.

To assert its role, EEOC’s mandate covers all employers with at least 15 employers or

more (U.S Equal Employment

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