Koch Foods Owes Female Worker $262,000 for Promotion Denial

A female former Koch Foods human resources employee who was denied a promotion because of her sex is entitled to the full amount of back pay awarded by a jury, not the $10,854 the trial judge reduced it to, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Koch Foods Inc. and Koch Foods of Alabama Inc. blew their chance to argue Shawnetta Collins’ lost pay stopped accruing when her then boyfriend was promoted and the couple were married about a month later, the court said. She is entitled to $262,000 in back pay on her promotion claim under Title VII of the 1964 ...