IBM Worker’s Failure to Exhaust EEOC Remedy Sinks Pay Bias Claim

An IBM employee’s pay discrimination claim was dismissed by a federal court because she failed to exhaust her administrative remedies with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Rosalva Nuñez-Renck argued that she amended her EEOC complaint to add the pay discrimination claim, but International Business Machines Corp. presented the EEOC’s file for her chargeto show that she didn’t.

“IBM has established beyond peradventure that Nuñez did not administratively exhaust her pay discrimination claims,” and IBM is entitled to summary judgment, Senior Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater said Thursday for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, denying her claim ...