A former American Express employee on Tuesday sued the credit card company, alleging that he was fired because he is white and objected to the company’s “racially discriminatory” policies, Fox Business reports.
Brian Netzel, who lost his job in 2020 after 10 years at American Express, filed a class-action complaint against the credit card giant. He said he and other white employees faced discrimination because of the company’s “diversity” efforts.
American Express poured billions of dollars into “antiracism” policies in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in 2020. Earlier this month, the company pledged to devote an additional $3 billion to a “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan.”
According to Netzel’s lawsuit, American Express’s implementation of these “antiracism” policies “gave preferential treatment to individuals for being black and unambiguously signaled to white employees that their race was an impediment to getting ahead in the company.” Executives were given monetary incentives to “decrease the percentage of white employees in their departments.”
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