Obama EEOC Gets Schooled by Federal Judge for Suing Company That Uses Exact Same Practices as the EEOC

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The EEOC has been suing companies for running race-blind credit checks on prospective employees and senior managers.

More idiocy from the Obama administration–
This week the commission got schooled by a federal judge who noted in the first line of her decision that the defendant Kaplan uses the same practices as the EEOC.

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. In this case the EEOC sued the defendants for using the same type of background check that the EEOC itself uses. The EEOC’s personnel handbook recites that “[o]verdue just debts increase temptation to commit illegal or unethical acts as a means of gaining funds to meet financial obligations.” Because of that concern, the EEOC runs credit checks on applicants for 84 of the agency’s 97 positions. The defendants (collectively, “Kaplan”) have the same concern; and thus Kaplan runs credit checks on applicants for positions that provide access to students’ financial-loan information, among other positions. For that practice, the EEOC sued Kaplan.

So it’s racist if private companies use background checks but not if the EEOC uses background checks.
Got it?
The Wall Street Journal reported on the case:

A big story of President Obama’s second term is how federal courts are overturning executive abuses. But sometimes the prosecution is so outrageous, and the legal smackdown so sublime, that the episode deserves special recognition.

Such is the case with last week’s hilariously caustic rebuke of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The EEOC had sued Kaplan, the for-profit education company, for using “the same type of background check that the EEOC itself uses,” as Judge Raymond Kethledge cheekily put it in the first sentence of his ruling in EEOC v. Kaplan.

Despite its own practices, the Obama EEOC has made a cause of suing private companies because it claims that credit and criminal background checks discriminate against minorities. In 2012 the agency issued “guidance” to get companies to think twice before using criminal checks but stopped short of doing the same for credit checks.

And, just think, your tax dollars paid for this idiocy.

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