IBM Manager Who Backed Black Salesman Awarded $11 Million (2)

IBM must pay $11 million for firing a manager in its embedded solutions agreement group because he complained about race discrimination against a Black sales representative who believed he was cheated out of sales commissions, a federal jury in Washington state ruled.

The retaliation Scott Kingston was subjected to by International Business Machines Corp. violated Washington’s Law Against Discrimination and the state’s public policies prohibiting racial bias and the wrongful withholding of wages, the jury told the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington Thursday.

Kingston also proved he wasn’t paid all commissions owed to him by IBM ...