When DEI Violates EEO Law
In Lutz v. Liquidity Services, Inc., No. PWG-21-1229 (United States District Court, D. 马里兰, Southern Division, 12/12/22), a vice president of human resources is suing his former employer. 据这位副总裁说,CEO/董事长对他说:“迈克,我想让你退休. I have a diversity problem. I need to improve the diversity profile of the company. And I need to promote Novelette [Murray] into your job.”(仅供参考, Novelette is an African-American woman, and the company’s leadership at that time was all white men). 副总统宣布退休时,他的成就受到了赞扬, but then (oddly) he was terminated “without cause,尽管该公司现在表示这是由于性能问题. The case was allowed to continue to trial. 教训? 为了给少数族裔雇员创造机会而对非少数族裔雇员采取负面雇佣行动,仍然违反了反歧视法, even if done in the name of diversity.