FedEx Employee’s Race Bias Case Saved by EEOC ‘Worksharing’ Pact

A former security officer at a FedEx shipping center, who says he wouldn’t have been fired for not detecting a weapon in a package before it was loaded onto a plane if he was white, raised his bias claim in time, the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday on an issue of first impression.

Climmons Jones had 300, not 180, days to file a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because the federal agency has a “worksharing” agreement with the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, as it does with most state and local fair employment agencies, the court said. Those agreements typically ...