The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has increased its efforts to encourage large corporations to enter into Nationwide Universal Agreements to Mediate (UAM). To date, more than 200 private-sector employers, including several Fortune 500 companies, have entered into UAM agreements with the EEOC at the national level. Additionally, EEOC district offices have entered into 1,743 mediation agreements with employers at the local level.
The EEOC’s focus on UAMs, which apply to individual-charges of discrimination, but not to class ...
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