Kudos to President
Trump for nominating Chai Feldman to a third term as head of the EEOC (Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission)—the agency that enforces anti-discrimination
laws related to work.
As reported by Reuters Legal, Feldblum was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center for nearly
two decades before being tapped by then-President Barack Obama to join the
commission in 2009, and is a noted expert on disability law and LGBT legal
issues.
She was also a staff
attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in the late 1980s, and helped to draft the Americans with Disabilities Act.
She also helped draft
the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill first introduced in the U.S.
Congress in 1994 that would ban discrimination based on a worker's sexual
orientation. (The law has not passed despite several attempts.)
Reuters also reports
that Feldblum and a Republican Commissioner of the EEOC, Victoria Lipnic, co-authored
a report that said workplace harassment is widespread and anti-bias training
had been largely ineffective. Lipnic was appointed by Mr. Trump.
This news is worth a
tweet.
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