She says the choice to stay or leave came with a shrinking deadline after she complained
A former Apple worker has sued the company, alleging race and national-origin discrimination and retaliation that she says forced her to resign.
The plaintiff, a bioengineer with a PhD who worked as a senior technical project manager on Apple's Health Studies team, filed the suit on August 3, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. She is representing herself. Her claims fall under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, a federal law that bars race discrimination in employment contracts.
According to the complaint, Apple hired her in June 2023 after a panel of about twelve interviewers and assigned her to complex clinical-health studies. The filing says senior clinical, legal, and program stakeholders praised her work repeatedly, including during a period the complaint says Apple later characterized as persistent underperformance.
The complaint describes a series of events over roughly two years. It alleges that on March 4, 2024, managers told her she was being removed from a project she had led or supported for about six months. Apple transferred the responsibilities to a white colleague, the filing states, but continued asking her to attend meetings about the project and to rely on her knowledge of it. The complaint alleges Apple did not identify formal performance discipline as the reason for the removal at that time.
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