The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced recently that it recovered a record-high $365.4 million for private-sector employees through its administrative enforcement efforts in fiscal year 2012, and an additional $44.2 million through litigation. In fiscal year 2012, the EEOC processed 99,412 private sector discrimination, harassment and retaliation charges, down slightly from the record of 99,947 set in 2011.

Michael Homans is a Labor & Employment attorney and founding partner of HomansPeck LLC. For more employment law updates, including news and links to important information pertaining to legal developments that may affect your business, subscribe to Michael’s blog, or follow him on Twitter @EmployLawUpdate.