Chevron Fails to Reduce $4 Million Bias Award About Overseas Job

Chevron USA Inc. failed to convince a federal judge to overturn or reduce a $4 million verdict for an employee whose offer to work in Nigeria was rescinded due to his heart condition.

Trial evidence supported the rejection of the company’s defense that Mark Snookal would’ve directly threatened workplace safety and health if allowed to fill the position in the country’s Escravos area, the US District Court for the Central District of California said. Whether a worker is a threat to their own safety and health or that of others in the workplace is based on whether their condition presently ...