By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 Last month, the Commission issued a decision modifying a Final Agency Decision which had found no discrimination, and found the National Science Foundation failed to accommodate an employee with stage 4 terminal cancer. This case is...
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 First, a joke. My husband and I were walking down the street recently when he turned to me and asked, if Santa Claus knows if you’ve been bad or good, how did he not pick up on the fact that Rudolph was being bullied by the other...
By Deryn Sumner, December 13, 2017 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2017. You can find the complete report here: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/plan/upload/2017par.pdf The bulk of the...
By Deryn Sumner, November 20, 2017 Collateral attack. Sounds pretty cool on its face, like a move you’d use to take down your opponent in a street fighting video game. In reality, it’s just a basis for an agency to dismiss a formal EEO complaint because the...
By Deryn Sumner, November 15, 2017 Although we see many more cases involving claims addressing the federal government’s obligation to accommodate employees with disabilities, the federal government also has an obligation to reasonably accommodate employees’ religion. ...
By Deryn Sumner, November 15, 2017 As we’ve discussed previously in this space, if an employee establishes a prima facie claim of sex discrimination under the Equal Pay Act, the agency can assert a defense by pointing to a factor “other than sex” that explains the...
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