A large multinational foodservice company is facing a federal lawsuit after firing a California recruiter who refused to administer the company's diversity program for religious reasons.
On July 24, Courtney Rogers sued Compass Group USA in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleging wrongful termination, religious discrimination and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The company fired Rogers after she requested a religious accommodation to avoid managing a diversity program available only to women and people of color.
Compass is a Charlotte, N.C.-based foodservice firm with more than 400,000 workers across the world. It did not respond to a request for comment.
Background
Rogers was a recruiter in Compass' HR department, working from home in San Diego. In March 2022, Compass began to design and implement a diversity program that offered training, mentorship and the promise of a guaranteed promotion at the completion of the program. Employees could be nominated for the program by their supervisors, but white men were not eligible to participate. Citing her Christian beliefs, Rogers requested not to work on this program and to take up other job duties instead.
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