they would assist their employees to travel out of state to access abortion healthcare. Now, a Trump-appointed member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission—Andrea Lucas—is working from inside the civil rights agency to attack these employer benefits.workers seeking abortions, while discriminating against pregnant workers and disabled workers, because they are not offered equivalent benefits for their medical needs.
that these travel benefits favor people choosing abortion over people carrying a pregnancy to term, in violation of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. that nothing in its text “shall preclude an employer from providing abortion benefits.”are offering abortion travel benefits, including banks, tech companies, retailers, media companies and more.
Andrea R. Lucas was sworn in on Oct. 19, 2020, as commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Lucas was nominated by President Trump for a term expiring July 1, 2025. Lucas is known for prioritizing religious discrimination over other forms of discrimination investigated by the EEOC, which includes race discrimination, sex discrimination and sexual harassment. Before joining the EEOC, Lucas practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a high-powered conservative law firm, currentlythe Indian Child Welfare Act as reverse discrimination against white people because the law prefers Native American people in the adoption of Native American children.
In late 2020, Lucas and former EEOC general counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson held a series of listening sessions on religious discrimination, then later spearheaded the passage of updates to the EEOC’s
Fire that person!
Appalling!