Opinion ID: 166561
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Khader

Text: 27 Shikles and the EEOC argue that cases like Khader are distinguishable because they are cases involving federal employees, rather than private sector employees. It is true that in cases involving federal employees the investigating agency or EEOC has an adjudicative function not applicable in private sector cases, and federal employees' administrative obligations are different than those of private sector employees. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-16 (Title VII); 29 U.S.C. § 633a (ADEA). 28 However, Khader does not imply that the result in that case might have been different had the plaintiff been a private sector employee, rather than a federal employee. Moreover, the requirements placed on federal and private sector employees are in essence quite similar because a federal employee may take his case to district court, where it is subject to de novo review, see Chandler v. Roudebush, 425 U.S. 840, 848, 96 S.Ct. 1949, 48 L.Ed.2d 416 (1976), and neither an agency nor the EEOC can enforce its adjudications in federal-sector cases. Thus, a federal employee may find himself or herself in district court in substantially the same position as a private sector employee. As a result, Khader is not distinguishable from the case at bar simply because Khader involved a federal employee.