Last week, the EEOC released its 2016 Annual Performance and Accountability Report. In fiscal year 2016, which ended September 30, the agency won $482.1 million for workers and resolved 97,443 charges—6.5 % more than it received. This is $43 million less than the agency recovered in the 2015 fiscal year. This year’s recovery includes $347.9 million for victims of employment discrimination in private and public sector workplaces through mediation, conciliation, and settlements; $52.2 million for workers harmed by discriminatory practices through agency litigation; and $82 million for federal employees and applicants. EEOC Chair Jenny Yang said the agency is “proud of our efforts to foster constructive solutions that promote prosperity for all our workers, employers and communities.”

• One of the largest trucking and transportation companies in North America agreed to pay $260,000 and provide other relief to settle EEOC charges that it discriminated against East Indian Sikh job applicants.
• Georgia Power Company will pay more than $1.5 million to settle a class disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC on behalf of 24 workers.
• A former dean at the University of California Berkeley School of Law withdrew his federal discrimination lawsuit against the school after a federal judge declined to stop sexual harassment disciplinary proceedings against the former dean.

• Senior executives at LinkedIn and Google acknowledged the role of large tech companies in eliminating jobs and their responsibility to minimize job losses by creating new opportunities.
• The future of wearable technology is clothing: designers are hard at work developing internet-connected clothing.
• A workers’ advocacy group created and launched the WorkIt app to educate employees at Walmart about company policies and their legal rights.
• Wired reports that big corporations are gaining a significant advantage by recruiting top machine learning talent and acquiring AI startups, making it harder for small companies to find talent.

• The Washington Post covered efforts by city and state lawmakers to make it more difficult for employers to use salary history to set compensation.
• Amazon announced it will “radically simplify” its performance assessment process.
• Penguin Random House became the latest in a growing number of employers to offer student loan repayment as a workplace benefit.
• Harvard Business Review discussed the importance of implementing an effective wellness program in the workplace.
• Microsoft announced it will tie executive bonuses to diversity recruiting in an effort to include more women and minorities.
• Fast Company considered how race shapes women’s experiences in the workplace.