WeWork Will Arbitrate Black Ex-Executive’s Race, Sex Bias Claims

A black attorney who says WeWork Companies Inc. reneged on its offer for her to become a top executive in New York must arbitrate her claims of race and gender discrimination, retaliation, and equal pay violations, a federal court in New York said Thursday.

Ayesha Whyte signed an offer to become director of employee relations in WeWork’s New York office, according to her complaint. WeWork failed to deliver on several of its commitments, forcing her to work in Washington, D.C., instead of New York, placing her in different position than the one she’d accepted, and slashing her starting salary ...