PECO (Philadelphia Electric Company) /Exelon [Ticker: EXC] muh diversity fuckery:

…Things started to go downhill around January 2016. That’s when PECO implemented its “Accelerated Workforce Diversification” program, with a goal to increase the diversity of PECO’s workforce by seven percent between 2016 and 2020.

The lawsuit says that the only way to reach the required goal under AWD was to ensure that 70 percent of all new hires were diverse — a term that the suit defines as anybody who is not a white male — and to get rid of some of the white men who were employed by PECO at the time.

Kirschbaum claims he was required to produce reports known as “Diversity Reports” that listed the race and ethnicity of all of his recruitment candidates. He alleges that higher-ups at PECO would review these reports and make final hiring decisions based on them. The suit goes on to claim that PECO officials reprimanded him when he hired more than two white men and that he was instructed to hire less qualified candidates, just because they weren’t white men.

According to the lawsuit, Kirschbaum objected to these policies and procedures, which the suit describes as “blatantly discriminatory,” and told PECO that he would continue to hire the most qualified candidate, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or sex.

In response, claims the suit, PECO retaliated against Kirschbaum, first by putting him on probation and later firing him. He was replaced by a black woman. The suit maintains that Kirschbaum was terminated both because he is a white male and also because of his opposition to PECO’s hiring practices.

Read more at https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/09/05/reverse-discrimination-lawsuit-peco/#j849fpb1UXcE4LTk.99