It’s a story worthy of the Onion–or maybe Lewis Carroll. The Washington Post reports that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency charged with overseeing the fair labor practices of American employers, has been forcing its employees to accept compensatory time off in lieu of overtime pay, in violation of its own regulations–and the law. This
EEOC officials and the union representing its employees (hey, is that the same union that represents union workers in their grievance against SEIU?) blame this sorry state of affairs on eight years of Bush administration neglect, when the agency “lost about 25 percent of its staff, including investigators and lawyers who handle the cases . . . and hiring was often at a standstill.” They’re hoping for improvements under the Obama administration. In the meantime, the president’s gonna get their cars fixed.
