   In its current Strategic Enforcement Plan, the U. S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission says that it is fed up with
and will target employer “policies and practices that discourage
or prohibit individuals from exercising their rights under
employment discrimination statutes, or which impede the EEOC's
investigative or enforcement efforts.”  The EEOC goes on to say
that such policies and practices include those that “prohibit
filing charges with the EEOC or providing information to assist
in the investigation or prosecution of claims of unlawful
discrimination.”  [Translation:  Hey, employers, we don’t like
your separation agreements and we’re going to make you water
them down to the point that they’re meaningless.]  True to its
word, the EEOC has now filed lawsuits against several employers,
including CVS Pharmacy, Inc., alleging that the separation
agreements used by the businesses are unlawfully restrictive. 
The CVS case is receiving especially close attention because
many of the provisions at issu