Female Meta Employee Advances Promotion Denial, Harassment Suit

Meta Platforms Inc. must face a former marketing employee’s claims that she was denied promotion because she’s a woman, subjected to sexual harassment, and retaliated against for opposing job bias, a Seattle federal judge ruled.

The company was wrong that the harassment allegations failed for a lack of severe or pervasive abuse that occurred within the timeframe for suing, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington said. The proper test is whether the suit alleges an act contributing to the hostile environment took place within the statute of limitations, which it did with regard to the worker’s ...