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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexandra Olson

US civil rights agency denies issuing order halting all federal class discrimination complaints

EEOC Federal Employees - (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A civil rights agency accused of halting a sexual harassment case of behalf female prison guards is now blaming an administrative judge for doing so in error.

A labor union and two female prison guards sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces employment anti-discrimination laws, for indefinitely suspending proceedings in their case as part of a wider effort to halt all federal-sector class claims pending before the agency's administrative judges.

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