A recap of EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum’s hour-long Twitter Q&A

November 6, 2015 | by Eric B. Meyer

Yesterday, EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum took over the Bloomberg Law Twitter handle (@Bloomberglaw) for an hour, and answered questions from employment-law Twitter nerds like me.

Commissioner Feldblum covered the EEOC Select Task Force on Harassment, ADA/FMLA interplay, discrimination and social media, and much more. You can view the entire Q&A here.

(I lobbed in three questions, because I’m the dork of dorks.)

But, here’s the apex…

@chaifeldblum: want to give a shout out to my readers? Def using the transcript of this chat for a blog post tomorrow. TYVM! #BLAWTakeover

— Eric B. Meyer (@Eric_B_Meyer) November 5, 2015

@BloombergLaw Boom! #BLAWTakeover

— Eric B. Meyer (@Eric_B_Meyer) November 5, 2015

Image Credit: By Equal Employment Opportunity Commission/Comisión para la Igualdad de Oportunidades en el Empleo de los Estados Unidos [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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