Corteva Worker to Get Trial on Retaliation, Whistleblower Claims

Corteva Agriscience LLC must face a jury on whether it retaliated against a safety manager for reporting discrimination against Filipinos during a company probe into an altercation between two coworkers, a Hawaii federal judge ruled.

David Jarvis could convince a jury that the alleged reprisals he was subjected to—negative job review, performance improvement plan, and termination—occurred within a time frame to support a causal link between his discrimination reporting and subsequent retaliatory job action, the US District Court for the District of Hawaii said Tuesday.

Corteva asserted that the negative review and performance plan were justified by Jarvis’ sub-par output ...