Posted on 10/07/2024 2:07:39 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad
Marlean Ames, 60, filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging she was passed over for a promotion and ultimately demoted because she is heterosexual. The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case involving an Ohio woman who claims her workplace discriminated against her by prioritizing her gay and male colleagues. Specifically, the Supreme Court will rule on the question of whether or not the woman needs to "make a showing in addition to the usual ones for establishing a prima-facie case" due to her being of the non-minority, heterosexual status. The ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that the Supreme Court is taking up had cited previous case law in saying that the woman "must show 'background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.'"
Marlean Ames, 60, filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services, alleging she was passed over for a promotion and ultimately demoted because she is heterosexual. Ames began working for the department in 2004 and, after 10 years, was promoted to Administrator of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). In 2017, she was assigned a new supervisor, a gay woman who reported to Assistant Director Julie Walburn, a straight woman, according to the Daily Mail.
Court documents show that Ames applied for the position of Bureau Chief of Quality in April 2019, but after being interviewed, she was rejected. Ames claimed her supervisor praised her for decades of public service but "also suggested that she retire" following the rejection. The position was awarded to another gay woman, and Ames was later demoted by Walburn.
“Four days later, on May 10, 2019, Walburn and Human Resources Administrator Robin Gee called Ames into a meeting where they terminated her as PREA Administrator and gave her the option of returning to her previous position, which would amount to a demotion,” the lawsuit stated. Ames’ hourly wage dropped from $47.22 to $28.40. Her former role as PREA Administrator was then given to a gay man.
I have a female friend who was asked during an interview if she was a lesbian.
She walked out of the door right there.
Just get a short haircut and wear baggy clothing?
It was just her fate
to attract all that hate
right out of the gate
because she is straight.
I thought this story was going to be about the WNBA.
For fifty years the only people you could legally discriminate against is straight white males, and discrimination against them was required by law.
Affirmative action is supposedly no longer allowed, but DEI has taken its place, which doesn’t even bother to hide its agenda to kill all white people. first by digitally assassinating them. Eventually they’ll get around to outright murder.
It happens all the time. I know because I had to sign off on it during my career. Here’s how it works. It’s disgusting but the norm.
Every dept had an unofficial “quota” or maybe the term is looser, let’s say “goal.” Let’s say we needed an African American in a department. Honestly, in some positions they are hard to find. “Joe”, an African American holds the position of “Assistant Director” and he resigns for whatever reason.
Whomever is the hiring manager and HR automatically hold this position open for another African American. Not the best candidate. Not the first available good candidate. Unless Hell freezes over, they will comb the earth of an African American. It could be a woman. A gay person, whatever. Only if a long time goes by and not one appears, can a person of the other type be hired.
The truth is most HR people and managers hate this. Many of us try to resist but that was never possible if you have a woke, DEI obsessed leadership.
I have left the workforce. I would HOPE that with the recent Harvard case which directly affected Admissions , that organizations would stop this discrimination. We will see.
way back in the early 80’s I applied for a job. The HR person said as long as a minority or woman didn’t apply for it, I had a shot. Never heard back.
I 100% agree with you. Wait till Harris-Walz are installed, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
tweak the headline just a tad and yeah, you do.
not that it would make any difference, but that is illegal.
that too, just not as obvious.
yep, that is a no no for anyone to ask that is in management.
or grooming camp
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