recent employment law case that has been filed by the EEOC
respond to the following two classmates on their forum post for this week:
Original Question:
Research and summarize a recent employment law case that has been filed by the EEOC. What was the legal issue? Do you believe this case has merit?
Classmate 1:
On December 9, 2011 a complainant filed an appeal concerning her equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaint alleging employment discrimination in violation of the
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( Title VII). For the following reasons, the commission finds that the Complainants complaint of discrimination based on
gender identity, the change of sex, and/or transgender status is under the title VII and remands the complaint to the Agency for further processing. The Transgender
Law Center brought this case on behalf of Mia Macy, and a veteran former police detective. She was also denied a job as a technician at the Walnut Creek, California
laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) after coming out as transgender. The Transgender Law Center help Mia file a
discrimination complaint with ATF. We argued that the agency’s discrimination against Mia violated the Federal sex discrimination (title VII). The ATF refused to
process this complaint properly, asserting that the Title VII did not cover discrimination against transgender people. The Transgender Law Center appealed this
determination to the EEOC. The EEOC directed ATF to accept Mia’s complaint and decide it applying Title VII. The first time the EEOC has held that transgender people
are protected from discrimination by Federal Law.
Classmate 2:
Chick-Fil-A for years has been known for its scrumptious chicken and tasty waffle fries; however the businesses position and ways on Christian lifestyle has left many
of its workers filing charges and bringing the tasty chicken business into the spot light with the EEOC. So what is it that Chick-Fil- A is doing and is it or is it
not crossing the line with the basis of the businesses religious beliefs? The cases being filed against Chick-Fil-A come from different genders, religions and races.
One case involved Aziz Latif, a manager in the Houston store, who was fired the day after refusing to pray to Jesus Christ in group prayer, Latif is Muslim
(southernstudies.org 2014). It seems odd that a country that was founded on its freedom from religious persecution and keeping government and God separate should have
issues such as this in the country. Another example of where a worker from Chick-Fil-A filed charges against the company was in April 2011, Brenda Honeycutt was fired
from her manager position because the general manager told her that he did it so she could be a stay at home mother (southernstudies.org 2014). Latif and Honeycott
both brought their cases to the EEOC where they gave both Latif and Honeycott the ok to file against Chick-Fil-A. It seems as if filing after filing that Chick-Fil-A
does not care, that it sticks to its religious view and their founder even stated that they will terminate anyone who “has been sinful or done something wrong to their
family” (Spaulding July 2014). Unfortunately the federal laws do not prohibit employers from asking employees in the interview process about their religions or marital
statuses (Spaulding July 2014). The biggest defeat for Chick-Fil-A is that their views and actions are broadcasted by the media everyday and it is a slow demise for
the once well preferred fast food franchise. References: FacingSouth. 2014. Chick-Fil-A’s history of workplace discrimination.
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