Equal Employment Opportunity in 2024: What Employers Must Know

The past five years have led to significant changes in the workplace—ranging from increased remote work opportunities to greater emphasis on technology. Given these developments, employers must reconsider what equal employment opportunity means in 2024. Onwards HR CEO and Co-Founder Sarah Rodehorst and EEOC Commissioner Keith Sonderling joined forces to share exclusive information about how employers can emphasize EEO compliance in today's changing landscape.

Topics included:

  • The top equal opportunity concerns of 2024

  • Recent trends in EEOC enforcement

  • Risks associated with technology, especially the use of artificial intelligence (AI)

  • Practices organizations should adopt to promote EEO compliance

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Keith Sonderling was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, with a bipartisan vote, to be the Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2020. Until January of 2021, he served as the Commission’s Vice-Chair. His term expires in the summer of 2024. Before his government service, Commissioner Sonderling was a partner at one of Florida’s oldest and largest law firms, Gunster. At Gunster, he counseled employers and litigated labor and employment disputes.

Sarah Rodehorst is the Chief Executive Officer of Onwards HR, the leading offboarding platform that streamlines employee separations in compliance with corporate policy and employment laws. Sarah is an influencer, thought leader, visionary, and business leader. She has held leadership positions at startup and Fortune 500 companies and now leads Onwards HR as CEO and co-founder. As a women-in-tech evangelist and DEI champion, Sarah’s thoughts on layoffs, women in technology, and DEI in the workplace have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, CNN Business, NPR, SHRM, HR Executive, HR Brew, and Vice.

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