Tiffany Must Face Ex-Employee’s Retaliation Claims, Judge Says

Tiffany & Co. US Sales LLC must defend a worker’s retaliation claim that he was fired shortly after telling the jewelry retailer he felt discriminated against, a federal court ruled.

Nicholas Grant Mah Leung, a former Tiffany employee, sufficiently alleged a retaliation claim under the Florida Civil Rights Act, but failed with his claims of a hostile work environment and disparate treatment, Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the said Thursday.

The “approximate six-week sequence between” Leung’s “protest and ultimate termination are temporally close enough to permit a reasonable inference” that his termination was related to his protected activity, Cannon, who ...