A Trump-Appointed EEOC Commissioner has Initiated Investigations Into Employers’ Abortion Travel Benefit Policies
“Andrea Lucas is known for prioritizing religious discrimination over other forms of discrimination investigated by the EEOC, which includes race discrimination, sex discrimination and sexual harassment.”
According to five attorneys with knowledge of the situation, Lucas is deploying a rarely used EEOC procedure to target these companies, which have yet to be named, without the approval of the rest of commission.
This attempt to redirect the government’s limited civil rights resources to attacking women’s rights is evidence of the continuing harms caused by the Trump administration to women.
Before joining the EEOC, Lucas practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a high-powered conservative law firm, currently challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act as reverse discrimination against white people because the law prefers Native American people in the adoption of Native American children.”
* (Ms Magazine, 12/5/2022 by CARRIE N. BAKER)
This appears to be a continuation of a previous EEOC employee’s pursuit (Sharon Gustafson), who served under Trump, but was fired by Biden.
Ms Gustafson was also known for pursuing religious discrimination in the workplace during her tenure. Her legal stances prompted at least one EEOC attorney to voice concern that the agency’s approach in a religious bias lawsuit against Kroger Co. could impinge on the rights of LGBT workers.
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