Word: taber
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...would Shell Oil suddenly fire a 19-year employee who rose from $13,900 research veterinarian to $115,000 executive? According to Jeffery Collins, for one reason only: he is gay. Last week Judge Jacqueline Taber of California's Superior Court agreed, and ordered Shell to pay $5.3 million in damages for violating state law and its own contract with "a totally devoted employee...
Collins' trouble began in 1985, when he was director of a Shell subsidiary developing anticancer drugs. Using his office computer, Collins wrote an invitation to a party for gay men, which accidentally came to his superior's attention. Four days later, Collins was fired. Judge Taber determined that Houston-based Shell "created out of whole cloth" a damning job report on Collins to conceal the real reason for the firing: "a homosexual is unacceptable to Shell's management." Shell may appeal...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...
STAFF WRITERS: Guy Garcia, Christine Gorman, Emily Mitchell, Alex Prud'homme CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Carl Bernstein, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh...