Walgreens Bias Suit

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a Federal lawsuit against Walgreens (the drug store company) alleging bias against African-American managers and pharmacists.

The charges say that Walgreen's supposedly engaged in a form of segregation, because it assigned black managers and pharmacists to inner-city stores, rather than letting them run stores in predominantly white neighborhoods.

What I thought was interesting is that the EEOC mostly deals with one-on-one complaints of discrimination, but they have a mandate to investigate at least one systematic bias case every year.

They are under pressure to speed up their investigation time, because they normally take 5 to 10 years to investigate systematic cases, and critics feel that is too long a period to help victims.