NASA employees: EEOC committed ‘flagrant distortions’ to decertify class complaint
Employees alleging workplace discrimination at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a recent EEOC decision against them misapplied both facts and the law. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images
September 18, 2026 05:35 PM ET
EEOC officials touted a long-running discrimination case against NASA as an example why federal sector cases were in need of reform. The employees who brought the case said commissioners railroaded them.
A group of National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees on Thursday challenged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decision last month to strip them of class-action status in a long-running discrimination case, accusing the commission’s Republican majority of committing “flagrant distortions” of the facts and law.
In 2013, NASA workers filed a class action complaint with EEOC, alleging that the agency’s performance appraisal system systematically advantaged white employees and disadvantaged Black and Asian-American workers. Due to delays on EEOC’s part,...
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