IBM faces trial over alleged firing of employee for protesting commission paid to Black sales exec
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is headed to the courtroom via Zoom for a remote trial on April 5, 2021 as the defendant. The case, Scott Kingston vs. International Business Machines Corp., case number 2:19-cv-01488, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, moves to trial after Judge Marsha Pechman denied IBM’s motion for a summary judgment on all of Kingston’s claims, on March 1. Kingston alleges he was terminated by IBM in retaliation for protesting IBM’s decision to cap the commission of a Black employee on a large deal weeks after the company paid a white e...
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