The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has unveiled a new initiative to boost enforcement of the wage bias laws. The agency will create a new task force to help EEOC investigators analyze equal pay issues when employees file charges. The government is also providing additional educational resources through a new equal pay page on its Web site that includes fact sheets, statistics, agency rules and guidance. And in another development, the EEOC says it will focus enforcement efforts on disability bias against contingent workers—especially abuses by the temporary staffing industry. Since there have been few appeals court cases in this area, the agency is looking to bring test cases against staffing agencies for disability discrimination.
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