The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sues employers for discrimination, but it itself may regularly discriminate against its own employees, judging from documents it produced in response to a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act. It has a history of systemically discriminating against employees, and systemically violating the rights of its own employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

For example, the Washington Post reported in 2009 that the “Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, responsible for ensuring that the nation’s workers are treated fairly, has itself willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act on a nationwide basis with its own employees, an arbitrator has ruled.”

Similarly, the EEOC was found guilty by a court of systematic, illegal, discrimination against white males in Jurgens v. Thomas, 29 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1561, 1982 WL 409 (N.D.Tex.1982). The EEOC has a much worse record of labor and civil-rights violations than most corporations and agencies with a similar-size workforce.

In short, according to journalist John Berlau, the EEOC is like “the fox guarding the henhouse.” (See John Berlau, “Discrimination at the Opportunity Commission,” Insight, May 19, 1997).