EEOC Attorney to Testify at Coworker’s Bias Trial Against Agency

The EEOC failed to block one of its attorneys from testifying at a manager’s upcoming trial on whether sex bias caused her to be denied promotion to field director of the agency’s New Orleans office.

The attorney works in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Houston office, where the male district director, who allegedly exhibited sexist behavior toward female employees, also works. She says the director—who selected a man with extensive military experience but short tenure at the agency as the New Orleans field office director—criticized Indian-born plaintiff Uma Kandan’s accent while making a “bobble head” gesture and questioned Kandan’s use ...