News Notes: Staff Attorneys Sue EEOC For Age Bias

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency charged with enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws, has been sued for age bias by three of its former staff attorneys in Atlanta. Maureen Malone, 56, and William Outlaw, 62, claim they were forced into retirement after being given a choice of transferring to other offices or being terminated. And their former boss, William Snapp, 53, claims he was demoted when he refused to carry out an EEOC manager’s order to fire Malone and Outlaw and replace them with younger workers, as a warning to other senior staffers to improve productivity. The EEOC has denied the charges and characterized Snapp as a “disgruntled employee.”