I would take a slightly less jaded view. Ultimately HR's purpose is indeed to protect the company from employee lawsuits, but the proven most effective way to do that is to de-escalate and resolve early.
Unfortunately a lot of cry-bullies have been abusing the HR system based on a combination of prior bad case law and regulatory language which mis-interpreted the 1964 law as applying only to protected classes. An unfortunate number of HR personnel on both sides of this issue have pulled away from the intent of the law to various bastard interpretations of it like "Well, so and-so is <insert protected characteristic here> so we'll just have to let them win any arguments."
Gorsuch firmly grounded the law back to the law, as an individual right not to be discriminated against for a set of specifically enumerated characteristics that are impossible for a person to change. It's not a license to pick fights with your coworkers then claim discrimination.
HR is there to defend the company from you. They are not there to help you.
But yes, fight back. White males should sue for discrimination like non-whites or women do.
I would take a slightly less jaded view. Ultimately HR's purpose is indeed to protect the company from employee lawsuits, but the proven most effective way to do that is to de-escalate and resolve early.
Unfortunately a lot of cry-bullies have been abusing the HR system based on a combination of prior bad case law and regulatory language which mis-interpreted the 1964 law as applying only to protected classes. An unfortunate number of HR personnel on both sides of this issue have pulled away from the intent of the law to various bastard interpretations of it like "Well, so and-so is <insert protected characteristic here> so we'll just have to let them win any arguments."
Gorsuch firmly grounded the law back to the law, as an individual right not to be discriminated against for a set of specifically enumerated characteristics that are impossible for a person to change. It's not a license to pick fights with your coworkers then claim discrimination.