Trader Joe’s Is Hit With a Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Trader Joe’s Co. was sued for racial discrimination by two Black women who allege they experienced racial discrimination while working at company stores in Atlanta and then found many of the same conditions after transferring to locations in Southern California.
Josey Chappell, co-represented by civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, and Angel Robertson brought their Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuits on Dec. 13, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. A representative for Monrovia-based Trader Joe’s did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Chappell was hired as a crew member at a Trader Joe’s store in Atlanta in January 2020 and transferred to a location on National Boulevard near Palms on June 22 of this year, according to the suit.
