Capital Group, Switzerland-Based Worker Headed for Bias Trial

A jury must decide whether a Capital Group Companies Global employee subjected a longtime employee to discrimination because he’s French Canadian, and retaliated against him for his bias complaints, a Los Angeles federal judge ruled.

The investment management company wasn’t entitled to judgment without a trial just because the plaintiff sued under state law in US court despite having lived and worked in Geneva. California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act can apply extraterritorially and the managers who decided to terminate the plaintiff included two who were based in California, the US District Court for the Central District of California said. ...