A management-side law firm says a former Trump EEOC official is using her prior position to scare employers who 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.
Gustafson, a Trump appointee, was fired by the Biden administration in March 2021.
But Gustafson, an attorney who according to her website is practicing in Virginia, has allegedly contacted multiple employers suggesting the EEOC may bring charges against companies that provide medical travel benefits if those benefits are related to obtaining an abortion, according to the letter from Littler to the agency.
In a copy of one of the letters from Gustafson dated Oct. 11, she suggested that providing travel benefits only for abortion “is to encourage employees to have abortions, and such encouragement has been found to be evidence supporting a class claim of pregnancy discrimination.”
Littler requested that the agency “formally investigate” whether Gustafson’s actions “constitute a breach of ethical rules or regulations.”
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