October is known for Halloween and spooky shenanigans. Gratuitous amounts of Snickers, your former CVS becoming a Spirit Costume Store, and cute Nightmare Before Christmas reruns are expected for these thirty or so days. That said, some people are spending their October pursuing particularly ghoulish activities like trying to scare employers with fears of retaliation for providing healthcare access.

A management-side law firm says a former Trump EEOC official is using her prior position to scare employers that are considering providing abortion travel benefits.

The Littler Workplace Policy Institute sent a letter Friday requesting that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s current legal counsel investigate its former General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson for warning employers that the commission would take enforcement action over employee abortion travel benefits.

The first thing to know is that Ms. Gustafson currently has no EEOC authority. At the level of real risk, Gustafson’s warning carries about as much gravitas as phoning in threats to a department store manager that the department store manager has a bad attitude. However, it could be an actual threat it someone with actual authority was the one issuing the warning.

Over 120 large employers in states where abortion is now illegal after the US Supreme Court’s June 24 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization have announced coverage of travel for abortion care, according to Rhia Ventures....

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