Employee’s Failure to Identify that Her Termination was a Result of Discrimination Defeated her Discrimination Claim

In Logdson v. Turbines, Inc., the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a former employee who filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC that contended she had been discriminated against when she was demoted, was not promoted, and was disciplined did not preserve her claims of discriminatory termination.  The court ruled that “it was not reasonable to expect the EEOC to investigate her discharge as discriminatory or retaliatory based solely on the prior, ‘remote’ reference to the discharge in [a later submitted document].”  Because she failed to raise the issue with the EEOC, her discrimination claim was dismissed.