Federal employees know that legal protections against unlawful discrimination apply equally in all federal workplaces across the country. But what may differ when a worker transfers from one federal workplace to another is the prevalence of attitudes critical of LGBTQ...
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Three ways the Postal Service struggles with sexual harassment
The U.S. Postal Service counts more than half a million career employees. Accordingly, even small differences between the rates of employee concerns can have large real-world impact. Data collection errors that lead to numbers off by just one percent of the whole...
How fairly do federal agencies treat people with disabilities?
It is illegal to discriminate against people with disabilities. Employers may not hire, fire, discipline, demote or take other adverse actions against people because of their disabilities. Employers must also make reasonable accommodations, such as providing...
Failure to promote: Technological bias against older federal workers
Expectations about the technological abilities of federal (and all other) employees may have changed and evolved because of the COVID-19 pandemic. During quarantine, many people had to work from home and use technology from a remote location. Naturally, this may have...
Ramifications of religious opinions about abortion in the federal workplace
Around watercoolers and in breakrooms across the country, passionate debate about abortion has exploded because of a recently leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that would overrule Roe v. Wade if decided as written. Federal government workplaces are not...
