Kia HR Manager’s Case Could Spark ‘Earthquake’ in U.S. Workforce

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will hear argument Oct. 22 on what role, if any, a worker’s job duties play in determining whether she engaged in protected opposition to workplace discrimination.

A decision by the en banc court could affect hundreds of thousands of workers in the growing legions of human resources professionals and para-professionals, according to the Georgia and Florida chapters of the National Employment Lawyers Association.

Limiting in any way an HR employee’s ability to call out employment bias would be “equivalent to an earthquake in the national workforce,” the job rights advocates ...