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USCG Naples: Don’t Smile, You’re In the New York Post!

— By Domani Spero The New York Post has been stirring up a super storm in Foggy Bottom. Following the CBS News scoop on alleged interference over DSS investigations, the NYPost let out the screaming...

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State Dept’s Employee Discrimination and Reprisal Statistics May Boggle Your...

– Domani Spero On May 15, 2002, then-President Bush signed into law the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-Discrimination and Retaliation (No FEAR) Act to increase federal agency accountability for...

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EEOC Affirms Class Action Certification For Disabled Applicants to the U.S....

– Domani Spero   In October 2010, we blogged that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has certified a class action brought on behalf of all disabled Foreign Service applicants against...

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State Dept Security Officer Alleged Sexual Misconduct: Spans 10 Years, 7 Posts

– Domani Spero   One of the most serious allegations contained in the CBS News report last year include a regional security officer (RSO) reportedly assigned in Lebanon who “engaged in sexual assaults”...

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This Kind of Language Can Get One Suspended Without Pay in the Foreign Service

Posted: 1:25 am EDT   In FSGB Nos. 2014-041, the grievant, an FS-02 Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State, appealed the agency-level grievance decision upholding her three-day suspension...

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Baloun v. Kerry: U.S. Equal Employment Protection Do Not Cover Foreign...

Posted: 4:03 am ET   The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee...

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A Joke That Wasn’t, and a State Department Dialogue That Is Long Overdue

Posted: 2:41 am ET Apparently, there was a recent Sounding Board (SB) post about how “a DS agent made a rape joke in front of a whole class (60+) without thinking anything of the joke.” It took us a...

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U/S For Management Directs Task Force to Create New Sexual Assault FAM Guidance

Posted: 5:08 pm PT   The message below addressing sexual assault was sent to all State Department employees on November 22, 2016.  Several copies landed in our inbox.  The State Department sent us a...

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@StateDept Dismisses EEO Complaint For Following Wabbit Into a Hole, EEOC...

Posted: 1:45 am ET   Here is an EEO case with a reminder that the Commission has previously held that an agency may not dismiss a complaint based on a complainant’s untimeliness, if that untimeliness...

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So, what’s going on at the State Department’s Office of Civil Rights?

  Via state.gov “At the Department of State, diversity is not just a worthy cause: it is a business necessity. Diversity of experience and background helps Department employees in the work of...

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