Fired Black L3Harris Employee Advances Race Discrimination Suit

L3Harris Technologies Inc. must face a talent acquisition specialist’s claims that she was fired because she’s Black, a Dallas federal judge ruled.

The former employee’s lawsuit didn’t fall short just because one of her fellow Black recruiters wasn’t terminated, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Thursday. She also alleged her only two Black female teammates were terminated in the purported reorganization, and it isn’t necessary to allege all employees in the protected class experienced the same adverse action to plead race discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. §1981, ...