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Fourth Circuit Orders Racial Class Action Claim at Steel Plant to Proceed

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
05/26/2015
Class Actions, Employment Discrimination, Race Discrimination
Nearly eight years after the lawsuit was first filed, the Fourth Circuit ordered in Brown v. Nucor Corporation that workers claiming systemic racial discrimination in a South Carolina steel plant’s promotion decisions be permitted to proceed as a class action. The Nucor steel plant in South Carolina employs just over 600 workers in six production departments. There were a total of 71 black employees at the plant, but only one black supervisor. In...
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Black Supervisor Remarks He Has “Too Many Black” Employees; Employer Loses Motion For Summary Judgment

Kollman & Saucier
Kollman & Saucier
10/10/2014
Employment Discrimination, Race Discrimination
A federal district court in Texas has permitted a former African American sales representative to take her race and color discrimination claims to trial after she presented evidence that her supervisor made multiple comments about having too many black employees on his staff.  Turner v. The Hershey Co., No. 4:12-cv-03365 (S.D. Tex., Oct. 3, 2014). Yolanda Turner began working for The Hershey Company in 1998, most recently as a Houston-area retail...
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