Her role was "eliminated" - then handed to someone who asked her how to do the job
She was told her job was being eliminated. Her old team, she says, got a new boss instead.
A technology program management director spent more than three years at Equinix, the global data center company, before her exit became the basis for a federal lawsuit. According to a complaint filed June 29, 2026 in federal court in North Carolina, she led a worldwide team and managed a portfolio with an annual budget of about $41 million, with reviews that showed she met or exceeded what the company expected.
Then, in November 2024, the call came. An acting manager and a human resources representative told her she was being laid off, effective that December, the complaint says. The reason given: her position was being eliminated and her duties were no longer needed. They also told her, according to the filing, that her performance was "great" and that it was "not a reason" for letting her go.
That is where her account turns. The director alleges the job did not actually disappear. The complaint says her duties, her team, and her projects were all reassigned to a younger employee outside her racial group - someone the filing describes as having "never managed employees before" and lacking the skills to run either the team or the work. The plaintiff was 48 at the time, the complaint says; she alleges the replacement was under 40.
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