Real Story of Firing Discrimination

Ms. Wallace, an employee at Johnson Products Company, was part of a class action alleged retaliation, discriminatory hiring, discriminatory promotion, and discriminatory firing decisions made by a company executive, Jack Johnson. Johnson Products had no company termination policy and Johnson would often order his managers to fire workers without providing a reason. Ms. Wallace was a victim of this treatment when she was visited at her home by her immediate supervisor and arbitrarily fired. He told her he had no reason for her discharge except that Johnson had just ordered to him to "get rid of her." He told her he suspected she was fired because she had so firmly established distribution of the company's cosmetics in Louisiana and Mississippi that lower level employees could maintain the accounts. This job was given to a man. The court ruled that this instance and many others proved a pattern of discrimination in violation of Title VII and that all the plaintiffs were entitled to monetary relief.

Perryman v Johnson Products Co., 580 F. Supp 1015 (N.D. Georgia, 1983)