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Employer can be sued for retaliation

Given some evidence that an employer’s proffered reasons for firing a former employee could be construed as pretextual, a lawsuit alleging that the termination was made in retaliation for the employee’s complaint about workplace racial discrimination can go forward. While the defendant, Lifespan Corp., claimed that it discharged plaintiff Terick Azeez after reviewing a background report ...