Frontier Worker Can Use Alleged Bias Admission by Prior Boss (1)

Frontier Communications must face trial on a call center manager’s claims that he was passed over for promotion because he is East Indian and because of his gender, a divided Ninth Circuit ruled April 29.

A lower court mistakenly failed to consider a statement David Weil says his former supervisor made to him explaining why he didn’t get the job as director of the call center, a role Weil had been filling on an interim basis. The former supervisor, referred to as N.H., told him he wasn’t picked because he had once worked for Verizon, “you’re not white,” and not ...