Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (EEOC) -- Law Enforcement Laws and Executive Orders

As an affected employee in an employment discrimination case you may find yourself swimming in a maze of legal acronyms that are even more convoluted than the ones you encountered during your years of service at Intel Corp. Note that  EEOC law enforcement actions are based upon a collection of executive orders and laws passed by congress. To make some sense of the legal framework associated with employments discrimination I listed references to the actual legal documents, together with the most common acronyms. The links provided below are organized in historical order. Click on each link to review the relevant document.

• Executive Order 8802
• Executive Order 9981
• Executive Order 10925
• Equal Pay Act of 1963
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act
• Executive Order 11246
• Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
• Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978
• Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmental Disabilities Amendments of 1978
• Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
• Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1978
• Executive Order 12067
• Deficit Reduction Act of 1984
• Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1986 (ADEA)
• Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
• Age Discrimination Claims Assistance Act of 1988 (ADCAA)
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• Older Workers Benefit Protection Act of 1990 (OWBPA)
• Age Discrimination Claims Assistance Amendments of 1990 (ADCAA-II)
• Civil Rights Act of 1991 (CRA)
• EEOC Education, Technical Assistance and Training Revolving Fund Act
• Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments of 1996
• Higher Education Amendments of 1998
• Executive Order 13145

In addition, there is a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that provide guidelines for lower courts in cases involving employment discrimination cases. You can find the most significant ones at this link: EEOC Selected Supreme Court Decisions.