Targa Resources LLC must pay a former employee more than $150,000 for damages and lost wages after a federal appeals court affirmed a finding that the company fired him in retaliation for environmental whistleblowing.
Louisiana’s environmental whistleblower law protects employees whose job is to report illegal activities and those who refuse to participate in the activities they report, the Louisiana Supreme Court said, answering certified questions posed by the Fifth Circuit in January.
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NEW ORLEANS - A New Orleans man sued the Cornerstone Chemical Company and a Cornerstone supervisor, alleging unlawful discrimination and retaliation based on race, according to documents filed on March 2 in New Orleans federal court.
Plaintiff Okula Muhammad, an African American, was a reactor operator at the Cornerstone chemical plant in Westwego starting in 2014.
Muhammad s lawsuit says he was fired by his supervisor, defendant Greg Ritter, in December 2018 despite a positive work record, based on an incident that the plaintiff said was fabricated due to racial bias. Muhammad appealed the termination through his union and his employment was reinstated almost a year later.