A former employee could proceed on a claim that her employer treated her differently from other similarly situated employees on account of race when the employer decided to fire her, according to a federal district court.
The plaintiff, who is black, was employed with an agency overseen by the Kansas Department of Children and Families. The plaintiff was first employed from January 2014 to May 2014. When she reapplied to the agency in 2015, she was required to produce a written performance evaluation from a previous employer even though the agency never had required any other applicant to produce such an evaluation. The agency had few black employees, and most new hires were white.
