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

A laid off Black repair technician for Red Lion Controls, Inc., is entitled to a trial on his claims of race discrimination and retaliation under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, a federal court ruled. The employee proffered sufficient evidence to show the decision to terminate him in a reduction in force may have been pretextual, the court found, based on human resources’ acknowledgement of a supervisor’s disparate treatment of the technician early in his career, together with allegations of discriminatory acts by other managers, including a “slave” comment ...