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Sep 21, 2026
Alex WagnerGUEST
He's pissed about racial equity.
Alex WagnerGUEST
It is a p- a cross he has borne his whole life, and therefore, he realizes around the time that he be- goes into work for the Reagan administration reluctantly as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC, that if he forsakes the traditional, um, role of a Black man in society, which is to be someone perhaps who understands and holds close the experience of a Black man [laughs] in-
Melissa MurrayHOST
Mm-hmm
Alex WagnerGUEST
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Celeste BrodiganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One was the grievance procedure.
Celeste BrodiganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One was filing with the EEOC.
Celeste BrodiganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that was something that was new.
Celeste BrodiganSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
EEOC is the
Nell McShane WulfhartHOST
abbreviation for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Nell McShane WulfhartHOST
How that federal agency came to be of use to the stewardesses, it's thanks to civil rights pioneers, a quirk in the law, and, I'd say, kismet.
speaker_11SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Congress passes the most sweeping civil rights bill ever to be written into the law.
Nell McShane WulfhartHOST
And with the addition of that one word, sex, the stewardesses now had the weight of one of the mightiest anti-discrimination laws in history behind them.
Dan TurchinHOST
If you leave a comment, I just may pull it out of the listener mailbag, like this one.
Dan TurchinHOST
from Prashant in Cincinnati, whose favorite episode is number 307, with, at the time, Deputy Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling, who was also the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Dan TurchinHOST
When we recorded the conversation, we discussed AI bias in hiring and employee rights.
Dan TurchinHOST
Great conversation.
Mary CooganHOST
Who Title VII reaches and the 15-employee threshold that triggers it.
Mary CooganHOST
Disparate Treatment vs. Disparate Impact Explained in Plain English How the EEOC Investigates, Conciliates, and Sues to Enforce the Law Why Bostock 2020 Extended Coverage to LGBTQ Plus Workers Nationwide What Schools, Parents, and Children Gain from Fair Hiring Practices Passed at the height of the civil rights movement, this single statute rewired American work and life, reaching hiring, firing, training, promotion, pay and benefits across private companies, government agencies, unions, and schools.
Mary CooganHOST
It outlawed harassment and retaliation, gave victims back pay, reinstatement, attorney's fees and damages, and became the template for the ADEA, the ADA, and GINA.
Mary CooganHOST
Its reach keeps growing through amendments, EEOC guidance, and Supreme Court rulings.
Mary CooganHOST
We break down how the law works, who it shields, why administrators treat it as a daily duty, and how its protections quietly follow a paycheck home to the family.
Mary CooganHOST
Let's get the 20-second legal jargon out of the way so we can jump straight into the insights that actually matter.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees.
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It demands equal opportunity in hiring, firing, promotions, and harassment prevention.
Robert BarnesHOST
So you might think the statute of limitations says four years, but the notice of claim requires you file it within 60 days or you lose your claim and are permanently barred.
Robert BarnesHOST
So it's like EEOC religious discrimination claim.
Robert BarnesHOST
I hear people all the time.
Robert BarnesHOST
They realize they could have sued over the COVID vaccine mandate when they were discriminated against for religious reasons.
Robert BarnesHOST
not realizing they had to file that claim with the EEOC or the state equivalent of it, sometimes as early as within six months.
Robert BarnesHOST
And so they didn't realize they had a legal cause of action.
Robert BarnesHOST
And it's all these traps to make it difficult.
Tom SodeikaGUEST
You're a nonprofit.
Tom SodeikaGUEST
We'll give you a nice nonprofit discount to support you, but let's make sure that your payroll, your taxes, and HR is compliant because it's always funny how the organizations on the right Christian conservatives tend to come under the microscope of EEOC, Department of Labor, IRS, I mean, everybody.
Tom SodeikaGUEST
And we even had that time that IRS director who put a stop to, you know, 501c3 organizations organizing under the obama years which was absolutely disgusting but fortunately they did get their they did get their c3 and they started and and began to grow and charlie when i met charlie he was 18 and was the brightest young man with a tremendous amount of capacity for knowledge and a thirst for learning.
Tom SodeikaGUEST
And you couple that with an incredible mind that can retrieve information and convert it into, you know, beautiful language discussion and debate.
Alex WagnerGUEST
Every single sitting conservative justice on the court is a member of the Federalist Society.
Alex WagnerGUEST
A young man named Clarence Thomas, when he was coming of age in the Reagan 80s as the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC, became a vessel for partisan platforming.
Alex WagnerGUEST
I mean, he just became a tool of the Reagan administration.
Alex WagnerGUEST
Part of the way he became a tool for the Reagan administration is by self-radicalizing and starting attending Federalist Society events in Washington, D.C., right? I mean, it is an indoctrinating clearinghouse, if you will.
Natalie HolderGUEST
Why? Because they were really rooted in a business initiative that sought to create more and equitable access for all people, not just simply, once again, looking at different pockets of a population, but instead saying, you know, how do we open the aperture of this organization to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to join our organization, to stay in our organization and to advance in our organization? Now there definitely have been targeted approaches to making sure that quote unquote, there are priorities for this administration, i.e.
Natalie HolderGUEST
the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which really does have the regulatory ability to go after companies by way of investigations and even filing lawsuits where there have been violations of employment laws.
Natalie HolderGUEST
The chair, created what I call for lack of a better term, commercial asking.
Natalie HolderGUEST
And I mean, really, um, you know, beseeching white men to come forward with any quote unquote reverse discrimination claims.
Zak PaineHOST
But let's hear from the U.S.
Zak PaineHOST
Equal Employment, Employment Equal Opportunity Coalition or something like that, EEOC.
Zak PaineHOST
where the chair, Andrea Lucas, discusses American workers facing discrimination.
Andrea LucasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hi, I'm Andrea Lucas, chair of the U.S.
Andrea LucasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Have you been harassed at work for speaking English or for being too American? Or has your employer preferred workers of one foreign national origin to serve customers with that same background? Have you applied to a foreign-owned or operated business in the United States and noticed that it mostly hires or promotes non-American workers? Or has your town factory or plant suddenly stopped hiring locals and now mostly employees foreign workers? Are you a tech worker who's seen a job ad in a newspaper of all places for a perm labor market test and then been told to apply by mail or even fax instead of the company's normal online job platform? Have you even heard that employers say they prefer foreign workers because they consider American workers lazy? If any of this sounds familiar, you may have experienced unlawful anti-American national origin discrimination.
Andrea LucasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You may have a claim to recover money under a federal civil rights law called Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Andrea LucasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Contact the EEOC as soon as possible.
Andrea LucasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Time levels are strict.
DamienHOST
This is crazy.
Matt MuscardiHOST
Because the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has rescinded the ability of companies or the demand that companies actually submit to that organization their race and ethnicity data, their gender data of their workforce, which is the point of the EEOC to look at that data and make sure there's not massive discrepancies in the way that they're hiring.
Matt MuscardiHOST
Yeah,
DamienHOST
otherwise it's just stories at the water cooler if you don't have the data.
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