A Black former sales worker at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Columbus has been awarded $9.3 million in damages in her racial discrimination case.
A Franklin County jury has awarded $9.3 million in damages to a Black former Saks Fifth Avenue worker at thewho claimed she was a victim of racial discrimination that eventually led to her termination in 2019.
In a statement issued through her lawyer, Thomas Spyker, Cook thanked the magistrate judge who managed the case, Elizabeta Saken, and the jury. For its part, Saks continues to defend its actions and Cook's former managers who also were named in the case, and said other associates were terminated for violating the same company policy that Cook violated.
The lawsuit alleged a racial bias at the store and claimed Black shoppers were profiled when they entered. Cook said in the case that her efforts to get help from the company's human resources department failed. Cook was fired in August 2019 for what she said was violating a policy banning a practice called"re-ringing" that was not yet in effect.
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