In 2010, an employee of HomeNurse Inc. went to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and filed a charge claiming she had been discriminated against because of disability, race, age and genetic information, and that her employer had retaliated against her. It turned out the complainant wasn’t disabled, is white, is under the age of 40 and has no pre-existing genetic conditions. It also turned out the employee had been fired for posting confidential patient information on her Facebook page.
The EEOC responded to the charge by raiding the company “as if it were the FBI executing a criminal search warrant,” according to