EEOC Charge

November 16, 2024 by mjpospis

Hostile Work Environment Claim Dismissed on Administrative Exhaustion Grounds

In Bolton v. General Motors, 2024 WL 4707965 (N.D.Ind. Nov. 6, 2024), the court, inter alia, dismissed plaintiff’s Title VII hostile work environment claim, on the ground that plaintiff did not “administratively exhaust” that claim at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). From the decision: Bolton checked the box for discrimination based on race and…

SCOTUS Holds That Title VII’s EEOC Charge-Filing Requirement is Not “Jurisdictional”

Today the Supreme Court, in an opinion delivered by Justice Ginsburg, Ford Bend County, Texas v. Davis, No. 18-525, held that the EEOC charge-filing requirement, embodied in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is not “jurisdictional” (and thus does not relate to subject matter jurisdiction), but is rather a “claim-processing rul[] that…