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Case alleging racial discrimination in NASA’s employee evaluations set to move forward - Federal News Network
Thousands of current and former NASA employees saw a major step forward in a racial discrimination case that’s nearly a decade old.
The case can now proceed as a class action lawsuit after Supervisory Administrative Judge Stephanie Herrera at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission certified two classes of employees on Sept. 30. The employees who originally filed the case will represent more than 2,000 agency workers.
The employees alleged that a performance evaluation system at NASA systematically discriminated against Black and Asian American workers, who consistently received poor performance scores across all of NASA’s centers. The data showed the racial disparities to be statistically significant, meaning it’s extremely unlikely the racially based performance gaps happened by chance.
Michael Lieder, an attorney at Mehri & Skalet PLLC who represents employees in the case, said he “strongly suspects” the systemic discrimination stemmed from a flawed and limited structure in NASA’s performance evaluation system. The evaluators only considered a handful of tasks — between two and four — that employees completed over the course of an entire year, rather than a more comprehensive review. The performance evaluators were also disproportionately white.
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