A confidential complaint, a Slack thread, and a firing 24 hours later, according to the filing
An HR team forwarded a worker's confidential complaint to the manager he had complained about, according to a new lawsuit. A day later, he was gone.
That is the account a former Zillow national sales manager gives in a complaint filed August 5, 2026, in federal court in Colorado. The filing bundles claims of age, race, sex, and disability discrimination together with retaliation and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) violations - the federal law that lets eligible workers take protected medical leave. For HR professionals, the draw is not any single claim but the chain of workplace decisions the plaintiff says his employer got wrong.
The plaintiff spent more than seven years at Zillow, the complaint says, rising from sales executive to national sales manager and collecting promotions, raises, and stock awards along the way. According to the filing, his team ranked second in the company for quota attainment in his final year, and he sent more people to the company's President's Club than any other manager in his channel. He alleges he received a "glowing" mid-year review just weeks before the first written warning of his career.
Much of the complaint centers on his direct manager. The plaintiff alleges the manager mocked his age and baldness in team meetings almost every week. During a recurring music-guessing game, the filing says, the manager would tell him, "Ah, you're too old...
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