Fired Black Tronox Engineer’s Proof Warrants Retaliation Trial

Tronox LLC failed to show a Black electrical engineer was unquestionably fired for poor performance instead of for complaining about race bias and filing a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a Mississippi federal judge ruled.

The decision Wednesday by the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi said the engineer, who worked at the chemical company’s titanium dioxide manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Miss., presented just enough evidence to raise issues for a jury on whether the explanation for his termination was pretextual and whether the real reason he was fired was related to his race and ...