Case: Discrimination/Retaliation (E.D. Pa. )

A Pennsylvania federal district court denied summary judgment to The Valley Cafe on retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act brought by a male line cook who was terminated two weeks after reporting his supervisor’s racial and sexual harassment of coworkers, finding that his text messages constituted protected activity and that inconsistencies in the employer’s reasoning for termination created genuine issues of material fact about whether the stated reason was pretextual.

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