Nigerian Shell Employee Gets Bias Trial Over Inclusion in Layoff

Shell Pipeline Co. failed to cite a legitimate reason for including a Black operations technician in a workforce reduction and must face trial on his race, color, and national origin discrimination claims, a Houston federal judge ruled.

The man, who is from Nigeria, also has evidence that the company’s reason for selecting him as one of two operations technicians to cut from an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico during a 2020 reorganization was pretextual, the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas said. So a jury would need to weigh his Title VII of the 1964 ...