The EEOC is the federal agency tasked with enforcing legislation that ensures our workplace rights. EEOC rights for employees include the right to equal pay for equal work and that employees will not be discriminated against based on many factors. These factors include age, sex, religion, national origin, color, race, disabilities and pregnancy. As our workplace changes, more legislation is enacted to ensure continued rights for employees under the EEOC. For example, the original legislation that the EEOC was created to enforce was Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which essentially ensured that employees could not be discriminated against in the workplace based on race, color, national origin, religion or gender. In later years, legislation has been added and amended to prevent harassment in the workplace and discrimination based on age, pregnancy and disabilities. Legislation has been proposed covering discrimination against employees based on sexual orientation, and this may be added to the EEOC's role in later years.