Amazon.com won the dismissal on Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of discriminating against a Black former employee by reducing her duties and putting her on a performance improvement plan.U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan said former Amazon Music event producer Keesha Anderson failed to show Amazon gave her a poor performance rating as a pretext to discriminate, or waited until Black and Hispanic women became her supervisors before questioning her work. Subramanian also said ...

This story was originally published on HR Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily HR Dive newsletter. A U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission employee who alleged the agency discriminated against her based on her race, sex and national origin has received the green light to take her case to trial, court documents show (Kandan v. Lucas and EEOC).  The worker, an Indian-born U.S. citizen who works as an enforcement manager for the agency’s New Orleans field office, alle ...