University of Toledo HR Employee Loses Job Retaliation Appeal

A former University of Toledo human resources executive lacked evidence she was fired for her objection that failing to publicly post a job opening created race bias concerns, the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday.

The termination of the one-time HR unit director didn’t occur soon enough after she protested that not giving outside candidates notice of the opening before shifting an existing employee into it would violate federal-contracting requirements and risk potential disparate-impact claims by minority workers, a unanimous panel said. The four-month gap was too long, without more, it said.

Teresa Kovacs was wrong that an Ohio civil rights agency’s ...