The State Department must face a Black EEO specialist’s claim that discrimination drove her forced resignation from a leadership role in a race-focused employee affinity group, a DC federal judge ruled.
Claudette Rhone alleges being made by two supervisors to give up her position as vice president of an affinity group for Black government employees caused her to miss out on professional opportunities and chances for career advancement. “Although perhaps not as evident as, say, the right of an academic to present his research at a professional conference,” the ability to hold a leadership spot in an affinity group could ...