"There is no 'similarly situated employee' analysis available to the employer to defeat a plaintiff's claim." So held the Seventh Circuit in Diaz v. Kraft Foods Global, Inc., No. 10-3073 (7th Cir. Aug. 8, 2011), decided this week. A copy of the opinion is here.
A great analysis of the opinion is available at Outten & Golden's Employment Law Blog. It begins:
"A timely reminder from the Seventh Circuit that there is no "bottom-line" defense to Title VII (Connecticut v. Teal, 457 U.S. 440 (1982)): an employer does not earn immunity from Title VII liability by pointing to minority employees whom it did not treat as shabbily."
Read the full post here.
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