Black executive fights discrimination, may lose job at L’Oreal
South Africa's Dudu Tshabalala was the first black woman to make it to L'Oreal's executive committee. But the once-high flying executive now says that she is being ostracized for speaking up against racial injustices...
From BlackVoices:
South Africa’s Dudu Tshabalala was the first black woman to make it to L’Oreal’s executive committee. She was climbing the corporate ladder quickly, making her way straight to the top. As a manager in the diversity group, she even represented the company at key events.
But the once-high flying executive now says that she is being ostracized for speaking up against racial injustices. She said that L’Oreal fudged the books by stating that it has 30 senior black “legislators” when there are only four. Tshabalala’s court papers claim that the company is being “economical with the truth” in official reports.
Much of the target of Tshabalala’s disdain is Phillipe Raffray, the company’s managing director. He’s the one who is allegedly working to have Tshabalala removed from the company after declaring that the working situation was untenable. After Tshabalala made her claim that the company was fabricating the numbers deliberately, the total in the official report was reduced from 30 to four. Tshabalala has also filed suit to get her job back.
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