Twelve AT&T employees filed discrimination complaints with the EEOC yesterday, joining approximately forty other employees who have already filed complaints, and an additional hundred that plan to. The complaints allege a wide array of abuses ranging from sexual harassment, to failure to accommodate disabled employees, to discrimination against blacks in promotion decisions, to age and national origin based discrimination. While an AT&T spokesperson has reaffirmed the company's belief in diversity, employees in many job categories, nine states, and multiple authority levels insist that discrimination is a pervasive problem at the company.
See "About 150 Employees Are Said to Be Accusing AT&T of Bias", REED ABELSON, The New York Times, November 28, 2001