Category Archives: EEO/Discrimination
EEOC ORDERS NO CONTACT (AND MORE) AFTER SEXUAL HARASSMENT An HHS employee, Ileana, alleged that she was sexually harassed by the Agency’s Deputy Director (DD), who touched her leg, rubbed her shoulders, stared at her chest, looked down her blouse, … Continue reading
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTIONS FOR FEDS – RECENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS DOJ is busy trying to legally substantiate paying Trump $230 million for enduring the same process every other suspected and/or indicted citizen endures-but without being paid. But it somehow found a … Continue reading
JOB REASSIGNMENTS CAN BE ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION Back in 2024 the Supreme Court held that some job reassignments have enough of an adverse impact on employees that the employee can file a discrimination claim. Since then, the courts have been trying … Continue reading
MENOPAUSAL DISCRIMINATION IS LEGAL, BUT… Virtually all the case law holds that discrimination against employees because they are in their menopausal period of life is not illegal. (Yes, we know. That sounds insane given the hard connection between it and … Continue reading
IT IS NOW TOUGHER TO DENY A REQUEST FOR RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION Imagine this happens to you. You represent employees at an agency that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, like the folks at Customs and Border Protection. … Continue reading
CAN RUMORS CREATE A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT? Yup, or at least that’s what the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals thinks. “So and so is gay,” “Did you hear she is cheating on her husband,“ “I understand he is the … Continue reading
NOW THIS IS INTERESTING Mandatory referral to EAP may be “adverse action,” court says. That is the headline of the latest blog from the folks at Constangy, Brooks, Smith and Prophete, LLP. I am not sure why any fed would … Continue reading
SATANIC POSTERS IN THE WORKPLACE In his latest effort to drive wedges between employees Trump has announced that he is urging federal employees to pray, preach, and proselytize in the workplace on behalf of their religious beliefs. After all, if … Continue reading
“OH, YOU BLACK PEOPLE” No, that is not a quote from President Trump’s latest anti-fed employee executive order, but we can’t vouch for the drafts. The words were uttered by a Postal Service supervisor. According to the EEOC, his exact … Continue reading
WE WILL SEE A LOT MORE OF THIS THANKS TO ELON Gregory, an employee at the U.S. Agency for Global Media applied for the vacant position of “Kurdish Senior Television Specialist.” When he was not selected, he filed an EEO … Continue reading