Apple White Worker Sues Over Race Bias in Promotion Process

An Apple Inc. white worker sued the technology giant alleging he was passed over for a promotion to store leader in South Carolina in favor of a less qualified, younger African American candidate.

J. Eric Larsen, a 51-year-old gay white male, alleges Apple’s hiring manager showed discriminatory animus in a 2018 interview and again in 2023 when denying him the promotion, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina,

He alleges that Apple “put immense pressure...to replace Caucasian employees with African Americans,” at the Charleston, South Carolina store for which Larsen ...