It appears the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for making sure workers are treated fairly by their employers, spent its time during the Bush administration telling businesses, “Do as I say, not as I do.” Last week, the EEOC was busted in an arbitration hearing for willfully violating the Fair Labor Standards Act when it came to its own employees. An arbitrator ruled that the agency essentially forced its employees who had worked overtime to accept time off rather than pay them overtime wages. The union representing EEOC employees said the decision supports numerous complaints from rank-and-file that the agency is undermanned and its staff overworked. Over the past eight years the EEOC lost approximately 25% of its staff—while enduring a 26% rise in caseloads involving discrimination from 2006 to 2008.