Case: Discrimination/Promotion (6th Cir.)

The Sixth Circuit ruled that a female MGM Grand Detroit LLC plumber was properly denied a trial on her claims she wasn’t picked for three other jobs based on sex, because the company showed that the selected male candidates were more qualified and she lacked evidence that the explanations were just a cover for bias. The resort’s explanations that two of the positions went to a candidate who had experience working on the hotel side of the MGM’s operations that she didn’t have because the jobs were in the hotel were supported by the hiring managers’ contemporaneous notes, the court ...