Appeals court reverses Organogenesis win in gender bias, retaliation lawsuit

A U.S. federal appeals court this week reversed a win for Organogenesis in an employment discrimination and retaliation lawsuit from former employees, according to recently released court documents. The U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed and remanded the case filed by former employees Angela Gonzales, Linda Boyd and Brandee Colombo against Canton, Mass.-based Organogenesis. In the case, which had previously been granted a summary judgement in Organogenesis’ favor, the employees levied one claim of retaliation and three claims of gender discrimination. The appeals court said it believed that the district court incorrectly concluded that Gonzales, who levied the retaliation claim, “did not demonstrate a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether Organogenesis’s proffered reason for her termination was pretextual,” according to court records. Gonzales said that four months before she was terminated, she lodged a complaint against her supervisor, Oscar Ferrer, with the company’s human resources department. “Gonzales presented sufficient evidence that Ferrer caused her termination, including evidence that Organogenesis managers made retaliatory comments directed towards her, that her alleged compliance violations were false, and that the investigation into her complaint about Ferrer was insufficient and irregular,” court records read. The court concluded that Gonzales’ evidence and the short time frame between her report and an investig...
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