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Yesterday I had the opportunity (along with my fellow Shipman & Goodwin partner Peter Murphy) to speak as part of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities’ (CHRO) 75th Anniversary celebration. The panel — The Barriers to Employment Legal Update and Panel Discussion  — was chock full of the types of insights, data and analyses that is so often overlooked in this Twitter generation. We spent a good 90 minutes talking about the changes that have been going on at the CHRO and talked about what types of changes could be made in the future. Frankly, it’s far too much for one blog post. So I’m going to tackle them in a few posts.  Today’s post: The re-emergence of the Case Assessment Review. Indeed, if you haven’t been before the CHRO in the last year, you may be unaware that this is perhaps one of the biggest changes to the agency procedure over the last year. Hyperbole? Actually no. At least not when you look at the statistics r...

In preparation for a webinar I gave this week with my colleague Chris Engler (which, by the way, you can access here) I took a deeper dive into the statistics from the annual report released by the CHRO, in a followup to my initial report here. When you look at the numbers in a snapshot, it’s sometimes hard to see where things are going. But thankfully, the CHRO has nearly two decades’ worth of data to parse through. So, I thought it might be useful to go back a decade to the 2008-09 annual report and compare it with 2018-2019 to see if we can gain a larger perspective on both the work of the CHRO and where we are in the state of employment law. Overall, I was left with questions that don’t have easy answers. So, let’s go through a few of the data points; the reports are all pretty much written the same way, with the same categories used: Complaints filed by Region : Overall, all complaints (housing, employment etc) were up in FY 2019 to 2625 from 2001 ten y...