Illinois
White Illinois City Worker’s Bias, Equal Protection Suit Revived
Oct. 18, 2022, 9:20 PM
Springfield, In poor health., and its mayor might have denied promotion to a White former worker due to her race and race bias complaints, the Seventh Circuit dominated Tuesday.
Diane Runkel was serving as town’s assistant buying agent when the buying agent introduced he was leaving, the court docket stated. Runkel sought his job however the promotion as a substitute went to a Black worker whom Runkel had been supervising. The town provided Runkel a $5,000 wage enhance as “an obvious comfort prize,” nevertheless it withdrew that provide after she reacted negatively to the promotion denial and, in its view, precipitated a disturbance in …