Lyle Ridout v. JBS USA, LLC

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• deciding work performance and insubordination are nondiscriminatory reasons for an adverse employment action
• “[D]emanding that the compared employees have engaged in precisely identical conduct would make an employee’s conduct which was more serious than that of the plaintiff irrelevant to the analysis. Common sense as well as our case law dictates that we reject such an approach.” (quotation omitted)
• finding pretext because the employer failed to counsel its employee about his alleged poor performance and where other evidence suggested that the employee was a productive and satisfactory worker
• requiring misconduct be of “comparable seriousness” for employees to be similarly situated
• accepting declining performance and insubordination as nondiscriminatory reasons for firing the employee
• where evidence demonstrates different treatment for acts of comparable seriousness, factfinder may decide whether differential treatment is attributable to discrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).