He says Target investigated him - not the manager he reported
A former Target store director alleges the retailer fired him for reporting race discrimination.
A longtime Target employee with consistently strong reviews and no prior discipline claims the company terminated him after he raised a team member's complaint about race-based scheduling at another store - and investigated him instead of the manager he reported. The federal complaint was filed September 14, 2026 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The store director joined Target in approximately June 2018 as a senior team leader in human resources, according to the filing. He was promoted repeatedly - to executive team leader in 2019, then store director in February 2022. He ran multiple Philadelphia locations before taking charge of Target's Springfield, Pennsylvania store in May 2024.
His reviews were consistently strong, the complaint states. Target rated him as having "Delivered Exceptional Outcomes" and praised him for building talent, developing leaders, and turning "one of the most operationally challenged stores" into "a sales success story." In 2024, a Target senior vice president recognized his team for a shortage improvement of more than $1.5 million. The filing notes Target never issued him any written discipline before terminating him.
The complaint alleges the store director had raised race discrimination concerns on multiple occasions before the events that led to his firing. Before December...
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