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Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM, was sued by a former employee earlier this week over claims that he was fired for being white and male. The former employee is being represented by conservative group America First Legal (AFL).
Zoom in. The suit claims the plaintiff, Allan Kingsley Wood, an Idaho resident who worked for Red Hat from 2015 to 2023, was “subjected to discriminatory treatment and terminated because of Red Hat’s DEI policies.”
It further claims that when Red Hat instituted DE&I efforts in 2021, executives indicated that representation goals would dictate hiring and employment decisions. The suit goes on to