Case: Discrimination/Retaliation (N.D. Ill.)

An Illinois federal district court granted summary judgment in favor of Siemens Industry Inc. on a female engineer’s claims of sex discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act after she was terminated due to a reduction in force. The RIF decision was made before she made her discrimination complaints to human resources, she couldn’t show that the decision-maker knew about her prior complaints to her supervisor, and she failed to show that the decision was pretextual or motivated by discriminatory bias, the court said. Further, the alleged sex-based comments made ...