Sheetz, a Pennsylvannia-based family business operating over 600 convenience stores across six states, is being sued by the Joe Biden regime’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which says the chain “violated federal law by denying employment to a class of job applicants because of their race.”
Notionally independent, the EEOC is run by Charlotte Burrows, a Democrat and former aide to the late Senator Ted Kennedy. In a statement, the agency admits it “does not allege that Sheetz was motivated by race when making hiring decisions,” but insists the chain still discriminated against minorities by “screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records.”
The agency explained, “Federal law mandates that employment practices causing a disparate impact because of race or other protected classifications must be shown by the employer to be necessary to ensure the safe and efficient performance of the particular jobs at issue.”
“Even when such necessity is proven, the practice remains unlawful if there is an alternative practice available that is comparably effective in achieving the employer’s goals but causes less discriminatory effect,” they added.
Sheetz, which is being sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, says “[d]iversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are” and that they have “attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute.”
The EEOC wants the chain to offer jobs to minorities it turned down, including back pay and retroactive benefits.
The federal government has launched many lawfare cases since Joe Biden took office. Multiple prosecutions of Donald Trump have been mounted, and lawsuits have been lodged empowering federal officials to dismantle state border defenses and block state-level border control laws in Texas.
