President Joe Biden will nominate Karla Gilbride, a high-profile civil rights lawyer whose work has focused on combating companies' use of mandatory arbitration to handle workers' and consumers' legal claims, to be the top lawyer at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the White House said on Friday.
Biden's intent to nominate Gilbride, who works at nonprofit law firm Public Justice in Washington, D.C., to be general counsel of the EEOC was announced inGilbride did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An EEOC spokesman declined to comment.said Gilbride "has a proven track record of advocating for commonsense legal protections for workers who have been cheated or discriminated against, and those whose civil rights and civil liberties have been wrongly violated.
Biden removed Trump-era EEOC General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson from the post in March 2021. Gwendolyn Young Reams, who has worked at the agency for 50 years, has served asGilbride joined Public Justice in 2014 and since then has won a string of victories in cases involving increasingly common agreements between companies and workers or consumers to bring legal claims in private arbitration rather than court.
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