A former employee of one of the biggest food service companies in the world says her opposition to a company “diversity” initiative on religious grounds ended in her losing her job.
Courtney Rogers of San Diego, California, was hired in August 2021 as an Internal Mobility Team recruiter for Compass Group USA, Inc., the parent company of Bon Appétit Restaurant Management, Wolfgang Puck Catering, and other brands, according to attorneys with the Thomas More Society.
According to the lawsuit, in March 2022, about six months after Rogers was hired, the North Carolina-based Compass initiated a human resources program called “Operation Equity,” a purported “diversity” program that offered qualified members special training and mentorship and the promise of guaranteed promotion.
When it came to time to create selection criteria for the initiative, Rogers said things began to change.
“That’s when I started feeling very uncomfortable about it because they were limiting it to women and people of color, so obviously leaving out white men,” she told The Christian Post on Monday.
Rogers said she was also involved in discussions about expanding the program to other Compass departments, which would involve changing the selection criteria based on the needs of that particular department, including, says Rogers, “selecting other types of people based off their gender and skin tone.”
One example, according to the complaint,...
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