MetLife Defeats Black Privacy Employee’s Bias Suit Over CPO Job

MetLife Group Inc. successfully justified its decision to hire a White man to head its corporate privacy department instead of the Black man who served as the outgoing chief privacy officer’s “right hand man,” the Southern District of New York ruled.

MetLife showed that Jonathan Corbett was more qualified than Tony Spires, who had been serving as a lead data privacy consultant since October 2014, and that it wanted to take the department in another direction, the court said.

Spires therefore failed to show a prima facie case of race discrimination or that MetLife’s stated reason for selecting Corbett was ...