Bush's EEOC nominee "undermined" employment rights

Published: July 25, 2007, 4:15 pm

Tags: work

Of course Bush would appoint a man to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission who, in his previous job at the justice department, "undermined the unit's mission of securing the employment rights of women and minorities in the public sector, while defending employers' rights to discriminate based on religion." The nominee, David Palmer, also fired a colleague he had previously "had a romantic relationship" with: Marian Thompson, who worked in the section for 18 years as a statistician, said that after becoming section chief in 2002, Palmer fired a veteran attorney with whom he had had a romantic relationship and that the woman filed a complaint against him. In a phone interview, Thompson expressed surprise that Palmer did not let someone else handle that personnel decision. Richard Ugelow, a former section chief who teaches employment law at American University, said that it was "unheard of for the head of an agency charged with enforcing equal employment opportunity

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