Andrea Lucas, the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), recently posted the following on LinkedIn:
“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?
“You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the EEOC as soon as possible.
“The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating ALL race and sex discrimination — including against white male employees and applicants.”
For many years, many businesses considered straight, white men as “not in a protected class,” and everyone else was. Now, it’s never been true, from the time “protected classes” were created in 1964 with the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. That law protected people based on their “immutable characteristics” such as race and sex. You couldn’t hire someone because of their race, nor could you fire someone because of their race.
To keep reading, click here: The EEOC Is Sending a Clear Message: White Men Can Be Discrimination Victims
If every supervisor of employees does the required procedures for any deviations from the standard of expected performances, we would not be constantly having these discussions about following EOCC rules. But being human, there’s so many supervisors who fail to do their job that we always have these issues. HR doesn’t do the necessary questioning until too late too many times and most of these issues start in the hiring process during the orientation paperwork, where people just sign forms and fail to read them.