president Donald Trump According to what was reported, two of the three Democratic Commissioners were launched in the EEOC Committee (EEOC), as its administration continues to pledge to eliminate diversity, fairness and integration (DEI) from the government bureaucracy.
Charlotte Borruz and Jocelin Samuels now said in comments on Tuesday that they were expelled late on Monday night. Both said that they explore options to challenge their hypotheses, describing their removal before their five -year periods ended an unprecedented decision that undermines the agency's independence.
Buroz, who has been Commissioner EOC since 2015, said in its statement on Tuesday that the dismissal of two Democratic Commissioners before their conditions ended “the efforts of this independent agency to carry out an important job to protect employees from discrimination, support compliance with employers, efforts to expand public awareness and understanding employment laws Federal.
Samwales, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, then was nominated before Former President Joe Biden For a second term, her deportation said, “It violates the law, and represents an essential misunderstanding of the nature of EEOC as an independent agency-that is not controlled by one cabinet minister but it works as a multi-member body with different perspectives who are hiding in the design of the committee.”
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President Donald Trump speaks to correspondents on Air Force One on his way from Miami to the joint base Andrews, Maryland, January 27, 2025, where the White House press secretary is listening to Caroline Levitte. (AP Photo/Mark Schiesfelbein, File)
She said: “The president's work undermines the stability and continuity of EEOC's monetary work to enhance equal opportunities and fair treatment.”
In its removal, Samwales said, the White House “also criticized my views about Deia initiatives and sexual discrimination, which controls the basic principles of equal job opportunities.”
The former commissioner has argued that Dei's initiatives “protect all people on the basis of race, sex, sex, religious belief, and others Its biological gender, which prompted a violent reaction.
Samwales wrote on Tuesday: “The demonization of this administration for sexually transformed individuals is harsh and does not agree with the law.”
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The assistant general assistant in the Civil Rights Department, Jocelyn Samuels, speaks during a press conference on September 30, 2013, in Washington, DC (Chris Connor/Getty Emima)
EEOC was created under the seventh title of the 1964 Civil Rights Law as a five -party committee to protect workers from discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability and other protected characteristics. The US President appointed the Commissioners and is confirmed by the Senate, but their conditions are overlapping and aims to interfere with the presidential conditions to help ensure the agency's independence.
The agency's launch leaves with one Republican Commissioner, Andrea Lucas, who appointed Trump as the prosecutor at EEOC last week, Democratic Commissioner, Kalpana Kotagal, and three vacant vacancies that Trump can fill.
Another Republican Commissioner, Keith Sonderling, resigned after Trump appointed him the Deputy Minister of Labor.
Lucas, The new eeoc chair on behalfShe issued a statement last week saying that it would give priority to “illegal ethnicity of race and sexual discrimination; mono -sex areas at work.”
On the other hand, all the three Democratic Commissioners issued statements last week condemning a large number of executive orders aimed at ending Dei practices in the federal workforce and private companies, as well as “protection” for sexually transformed workers. Their statements also confirmed that the anti -discrimination laws in the United States remained sound despite Trump's orders and that EEOC must continue to implement them.
Charlotte Buroz, Chair of the United States Employment Opportunities Committee (EEOC), is a photo at their headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 14, 2021. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly)
EEOC Committee is investigating and imposing penalties on employers who have finished laws that protect workers from racism, sexual, disability and other forms of discrimination. The agency also writes impressive rules and guidelines on how to implement anti -discrimination laws, and leads to awareness and training in the workplace.
In recent years, Democrats and Republican Commissioners have been divided into the agency sharply on many issues. Both Republicans voted against new guidelines last year, saying that the “wrong” employees are for the transgender, or Deprivation of access to the bathroom In line with their sexual identity, it would violate the anti -discrimination laws. Republican Commissioners also voted against the regulations that stipulate that employers should give workers leave and other places of abortion to leave under the new fairness law for pregnant workers.
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The agency confirmed that a member of the Board of Directors of National Relations Jane A. Wilkox and General Adviser Jennifer Abrotzo were also launched late on Monday night.
Wilkox was the first black woman working on her since her establishment in 1935, according to NLRB.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
