Oil giant Shell USA allegedly ousted all the white employees from its corporate security team in Houston — replacing them with less qualified people of color in what amounted to a discriminatory purge, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Kevin Taylor and Gulf War veteran Michelle Romak, who are both white, claim they were booted from their jobs earlier this year despite each having more than a decade of relevant experience at Shell, according to the lawsuit filed in the US Southern District of Texas on Tuesday.
They are suing Shell and Wayne Hunt, a regional security manager – alleging they participated in a discriminatory restructuring under DEI mandates that violate civil rights laws.
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In January, Hunt announced an upcoming reorganization and required all of the white employees on the team to reapply for their current roles – though non-white team members were not required to submit applications, according to the lawsuit.
At the time, Hunt told Taylor that he had to resubmit for his current job because “others had expressed interest” and Shell “was looking to diversify the talent,” the suit alleged.
High-level security roles were then given to a Hispanic woman who had a background as an administrative assistant and a black man with no background in protecting people or assets, according to the lawsuit.
A Hispanic contractor for Shell – whose contract had previously been in the process of being terminated for poor performance – also won a role on the team, along with a Hispanic woman without US citizenship, the lawsuit said.
When it was revealed that she was ineligible due to her citizenship, the woman was given a high-level role at Shell in Mexico, according to the complaint.
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On its website, the oil company boasts that it is “working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive organizations in the world.”
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Taylor was stripped of his role and forced to relocate to the East Coast, while Romak and Thomas Hutt – a white man and US veteran who worked at Shell for 15 years – were fired, the suit claims.
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