In fiscal year 2020 (October 1, 2019 – Sept. 30, 2020), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 67,448 charges of workplace discrimination. The most frequently cited claim was retaliation, which accounted for more than 55% of all charges filed, followed by disability, race and sex. For details, see the EEOC press release.
Charge receipts by state show that the Hawaii EEOC office took in 308 charges, a decrease from FY2019 (330 charges), as follows:
| Type of discrimination charge | # of charges FY2020 |
| Retaliation (all) | 180 |
| Title VII retaliation | 140 |
| Sex | 125 |
| Disability | 115 |
| Race | 77 |
| Age | 68 |
| National origin | 47 |
| Color | 15 |
| Religion | 6 |
| Equal Pay Act | 4 |
| GINA | 0 |
| TOTAL state charges* | 308 |
*Reflects the number of individual charge filings, which often claim multiple types of discrimination; as a result, the number of total charges for any given fiscal year will be less than the total of the types of discrimination listed
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