Three Black security managers were fired without severance packages offered to laid-off white managers, lawsuit claims.
As Walgreens was shutting down drugstores in the Bay Area and across the country and struggling with a theft problem, it fired three Black security managers without giving them the severance payments offered to laid-off white security managers, a new lawsuit claims.
Alameda County resident Marcellus Clark, 63, alleged in his age- and race-discrimination suit filed Thursday in San Mateo County Superior Court that he was fired — after a 21-year career in security for Walgreens — by a newly arrived supervisor “known for terminating older employees once he acquired a new territory.”
Clark worked primarily in a San Mateo Walgreens. His duties included scheduling all the security guards for the company’s San Francisco-area stores, according to the suit. In August 2019, the supervisor fired two white security managers, both around age 60, and offered them severance packages, the suit alleges. Over the course of a year, the supervisor — responsible for security in California stores — also fired at least three Black security managers over age 40, including Clark in February 2020, with none offered severance, the suit claims.regulatory filing
that it planned to close 200 U.S. stores to cut costs, and by the end of that year had begun a wave of closures, including in the Bay Area. While the company had been suffering from what Bay Area authorities described as
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