Fired Kellogg Worker’s Sex Harassment Suit Filed Too Late

Kellogg Co. won’t have to face a fired employee’s sexual harassment, race discrimination, and retaliation claims because he filed his lawsuit too late and didn’t follow proper administrative procedures.

The case is an example of the issues that arise out of the timing of right-to-sue letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The EEOC issued a right-to-sue letter to Lenworth Bunting on May 15, 2017, and there’s a presumption that he received it three days later on May 18, 2017. Bunting had 90 days from that date to file his lawsuit.

But he claimed he didn’t physically have the letter ...