CHS grants Favorable Eligibility for Rehire

So I made an appointment to view my Carolinas Healthcare System's personnel file.  The friendly CHS staff escorted me to a workroom. There were several document icons on the computer desktop available for me to click and read upon arrival.  These icons included my years of successful performance appraisals, and my termination summary.

The reason for my termination was "staff reduction." (This means layoff.)

Eligible for Rehire? YES! 

Of course, I caught myself from rolling out my chair in laughter.

There was nothing else in my "public" personnel file.  It took me hours to process this information considering my unsigned separation agreement which was not a part of this personnel record stated:

"In exchange for the Severance payments and other consideration provided hereunder by CHS, Employee agrees not to re-apply for employment with CHS or any of its affiliates, successors, or managed entities."

So for under $1,500.00 - CHS, being the largest employer in this region, wanted me to never apply at any of their facilities ever again.  But since, I did not take the thousand dollar offer, I continued to be eligible to work for them?  Yet, they refused to offer me an opportunity to be an independent contractor with their attorneys stating that it was futile to seek such an opportunity.

I find that the messages delivered over the years have been contradictory in nature. It has been reported that the Chief Human Resources Officer's salary is over one million a year, but I am assuming from my limited correspondence with her years ago up until present that she is not micro-managing the Human Resources department.

My grievance is centered around failure to be promoted to a budgeted part-time hairdresser position.  If I encountered this kind of drama at this lower level position, it would be safe to say that the organization has much larger problems unless you are at the executive level.

The US Department of Labor supposedly have investigated Carolinas Healthcare System because CHS co-owns their MedCost employee benefits management company.  This relationship can be considered a conflict of interest.

Between the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the US Department of Labor, I find both government agencies tread lightly regarding Carolinas Healthcare System.

My surprisingly favorable eligibility for rehire may stem from me not having any write-ups  nor poor evaluations.  I only begged for fair treatment and equal employment opportunity. I was subjected to repeated failures to promote while watching them bring in one White hairdresser after the next by the end of my seven years of service.

I have repeatedly asked Carolinas Healthcare System to resolve this wrong, and their past response has been that I have no legal right to anything except to apply for other CHS jobs since I did not accept the separation agreement.

I understand that many of the people associated with all the workplace drama  that I encountered are no longer with the company, but how does that compensate me for the mental anguish, the emotional distress, the failure to be promoted based on employee discrimination, and periodic retaliation?