Sandia Defeats Energy Storage Employee’s Race, Age Bias Lawsuit

A Black employee in her 60s lacked evidence that race or age bias caused the loss of her long-time employment with National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC.

The Honeywell International Inc. subsidiary, which operates Sandia National Laboratories as a contractor for the US government, showed the former energy storage worker didn’t experience an adverse job action under federal race or age discrimination law, the US District Court for the District of New Mexico said. She also couldn’t prove Sandia’s reason for deciding to end her employment—violations of various company policies—was a pretext for bias, the court said.

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