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Biscuits an Gravy

@biscuits-an-gravy.bsky.social

This was sent to Andrea Lucas.

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#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #pushback #US #government #federalworkers #AndreaLucas

February 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM

Woke Not Broke 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈

@b2o6n4.bsky.social

Jury Awards $2.17 Million Against SkyWest Airlines for Sex Discrimination

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#Politics #USPolitics #Law #Legal #Justice #Business #SkyWestAirlines #Discrimination #EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #Labor

Jury Awards $2.17 Million Against SkyWest Airlines for Sex Discrimination

DALLAS – A federal jury has awarded $2 million in punitive damages again

www.eeoc.gov

November 29, 2024 at 6:59 PM

Steve Hudson

@dustcircle.bsky.social

The #US. #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission ( #EEOC) voted 2-1 to approve a federal sector appellate decision adjudicating an appeal regarding access to intimate spaces, including #bathrooms and #lockerrooms

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#gender #restroom #lgbtq

EEOC Says Federal Agencies May Base Restroom Access on Biological Sex

In a February 26 press release , the EEOC announced: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-1 today to approve a f...

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March 1, 2026 at 1:14 PM

War Against War

@waragainstwar.bsky.social

#UAW #GM #agediscrimination #ageism #Stellantis #EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #HR #HumanResources #SexualHarassment #lawsuits

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Federal civil rights agency accuses UAW and GM of age discrimination and Stellantis of abetting sexual harassment

In the final days of the Biden presidency the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed filed a pair of significant anti-discrimination lawsuits.

www.wsws.org

January 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Jim Cox

@bisasquatch.bsky.social

Source: @americanprogress.bsky.social

#EEOC #EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission #AcceptanceMatters

#Discrimination #Disabled #Ableism #ADA #Elderly #Ageism #Minorities #PeopleOfColor #Racism #Gender #Sexism #Pregnancy

#SexualOrientation #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQDiscrimination #LGBTQIAPlus

The Trump Administration Has Made 150 Million American Workers Newly Vulnerable to Workplace Discrimination

The Trump administration’s efforts to weaken the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission make more than 150 million American workers more susceptible to discrimination in their workplaces.

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March 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM

NILE1

@nile11.bsky.social

50th ‘State of Black America’ Report Warns Civil Rights Rollbacks Threaten U.S. Economic Stability
#ame#americanRescuePlang#angelaAlsobrooksp#bipartisanInfrastructureLawv#civilRightsDivisionn#donaldTrumpu#equalEmploymentOpportunityCommissiono#georgeFloyde#greatSocietye#joeBidens#lisaBluntRochester

50th ‘State of Black America’ Report Warns Civil Rights Rollbacks Threaten U.S. Economic Stability

The economic and political advances achieved by Black Americans face their most precarious challenge since the Civil Rights Era, according to the 50th

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July 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM

NILE1

@nile11.bsky.social

EEOC Sued Over Secret Directive Suspending All Federal Sector Class Action Discrimination Claims
#alexzandriaBoyd #americanFederationOfGovernmentEmployees #andreaLucas #deannaChelette #departmentOfDefense #departmentOfJustice #equalEmploymentOpportunityCommission #eraniaEbron #federalBureauOfInvesti

EEOC Sued Over Secret Directive Suspending All Federal Sector Class Action Discrimination Claims

A sweeping, unannounced directive by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to indefinitely pause all federal-sector class action discrimination claims

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July 29, 2026 at 2:45 PM

Waldo Grace

@waldograce.bsky.social

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
#KarenOrtiz
#EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission
#AP
https://apnews.com/article/eeoc-pushback-karen-ortiz-transgender-6ebc3cfb90298ae06f46d0ed4898733d

March 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM

The Asiancy

@theasiancy.bsky.social

#EqualEmploymentOpportunityCommission filed a #Federal #CivilRightsLawsuit AGAINST #TheNewYorkTimes! claiming that #thePaper #Engaged in “UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES ” DISCRIMINATED AGAINST "A WHITE MAN" EMPLOYEE WHO DID NOT GET A SOUGHT-AFTER PROMOTION OF deputy real estate editor role in 2025.