A U.S. judge rejected FedEx Corp's request to throw out or reduce a jury's $366 million damages award to a Black former employee who said the package delivery company fired her after she complained about racial discrimination.
request to throw out or reduce a jury's $366 million damages award to a Black former employee who said the package delivery company fired her after she complained about racial discrimination.
FedEx appealed the final judgment entered on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt in Houston in favor of the plaintiff Jennifer Harris, who spent more than 12 years at FedEx before her January 2020 termination. Harris said she had been a "rising star" who FedEx promoted six times and made a district manager, before her white supervisor asked her in March 2019 to take a demotion.
The plaintiff said she reported discrimination three days later, prompting the supervisor to complain about her work and issue a written warning, and culminating in her firing after a "sham" investigation.Harris $1.16 million in compensatory damages and $365 million in punitive damages.
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