General Motors Settles Sex Bias Case Over Hiring Women Engineers

General Motors LLC has reached a “settlement in principle” in a sex discrimination and retaliation case in which a female employee alleged it promoted two male co-workers for stationary engineer jobs she was more qualified for at its Spring Hill, Tenn., facility.

There were no female stationary engineers at the Spring Hill plant, “nor have there been for at least ten years,” Judge William L. Campbell Jr. of the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee said in denying summary judgment to GM in 2022. Shelly Varner alleged that when she raised concerns with her union, GM ...