Goodyear Beats Employee’s Race, Disability Bias Claims

A black Goodyear employee didn’t show the tire giant discriminated against him because of his race or his lupus diagnosis when it fired him, the Eleventh Circuit said Jan. 16.

Benjamin Payne didn’t sufficiently allege racial or disability discrimination when he sued Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. over his August 2015 firing, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s unpublished opinion.

The court upheld summary judgment for the company.

Payne also didn’t present any evidence to dispute the company’s reasons as to why it terminated him, the Eleventh Circuit said.

Payne wasn’t qualified for his ...