‘Not for white folks’

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A federal court in Pennsylvania declined to dismiss discrimination claims brought by a white former HR employee against Equis Research, allowing her case to proceed.

She alleges she was excluded from a diversity webinar explicitly described as 'not for white folks' and that the exclusion reflected broader discrimination against white workers at the company.

The complaint also says she was fired about a week after disclosing a lupus diagnosis and asking about a promised coverage bonus she says she never received.

The court found her allegations plausible enough to survive dismissal, meaning the case now moves forward rather than ending at the motion stage.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

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Whatever the merits of the underlying discrimination claim, naming a company webinar with a phrase that reads like a headline in a lawsuit is not a great sign of legal foresight in the HR department. Some things you just don't put in writing, and yet here we are, reading it in a court filing.

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