The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for administering several federal laws regarding discrimination complaints in the workplace. The EEOC tries to mediate as many cases as possible, as roughly 70% of mediated cases settle. I mediate cases in the Philadelphia area office, for both private sector complaints as well as federal sector complaints (involving federal employees). The EEOC has published its fiscal year 2019 statistics. Complaints have dropped again, down to 72,675.…