Ford Motor Floors Challenge to Arab Worker’s $16.8M Bias Award (1)

A federal jury in Detroit awarded a former Ford Motor Co. manager of Arabic descent nearly $17 million for national origin bias and job retaliation. Now the company says the trial judge in the case must hold off on entering a final judgment on that award.

Faisal Khalaf was awarded that $16.8 million in compensatory and punitive damages March 28 after the jury found the Lebanese-born worker was subjected to a hostile work environment that included harassment by both subordinates and supervisors about his accent, English-language abilities, and other aspects of his national origin. It also found Khalaf was demoted, ...