6th Circuit: No Retaliatory Firing Where Employee Rejected Offered Job

Mealey's (September 10, 2020, 9:42 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A former Ford Motor Co. employee can't show retaliatory termination where he was offered a replacement position following a yearlong medical leave, rejected it and instead chose a higher paying job with another company and failed to offer sufficient proof to support a jury's finding of a hostile work environment, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 31, reversing a trial court's denial of Ford's judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) (Faisal G. Khalaf, Ph.D. v. Ford Motor Company, et al., Nos. 19-1435 and 19-1468, 6th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 27677)....