{"id":9262,"date":"2016-08-27T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=9262"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:19:14","slug":"workers-file-discrimination-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/08\/27\/workers-file-discrimination-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers File Discrimination Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9263\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/08\/27\/workers-file-discrimination-suit\/blue-grass-army-depot\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Blue-Grass-Army-Depot.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Blue Grass Army Depot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Blue-Grass-Army-Depot.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Blue-Grass-Army-Depot.jpg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"Blue Grass Army Depot\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9263\" \/><br \/>\nTwo men have filed a lawsuit accusing supervisors of discrimination and retaliation at Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs worked as electronics mechanics at the depot, where they maintained and installed monitoring systems. James A. Bilski of Richmond and Charles M. Herald of Berea filed the federal suit in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>Defendants include Eric Fanning, secretary of the U.S. Army, and Col. Lee Hudson, commander of the depot.<\/p>\n<p>The suit says in 2014, Bilski, then 54, did not receive a promotion because supervisors chose to hire a younger co-worker. It says Herald overheard a conversation between two people who said the younger worker was chosen because Bilski was close to retirement.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have filed a lawsuit accusing supervisors of discrimination and retaliation at Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-2po","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-30 04:19:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9262\/revisions\/9264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}