In a ruling released this week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) upheld an earlier decision by an administrative law judge that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is guilty of retaliating against one of its own employees for filing discrimination charges, and ordered reinstatement, backpay and damages. The EEOC found that the Civil Rights Commission had demoted its staff solicitor Emma Monroig in retaliation for her 1995 filing of an EEOC complaint alleging anti-Hispanic bias within the Commission. This is the ninth EEOC complaint filed in recent times by employees of the against the Civil Rights Commission---which is now claiming that it has since eliminated Ms. Monroig?s position and does not have the funds to pay the $150,000 awarded her by the EEOC.
See "Civil Rights Agency Retaliated Against Worker, EEOC Rules", DARRYL FEARS, The Washington Post, June 12, 2002