Fired employee claims reverse discrimination in lawsuit against Coast business
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- Former Chevron employee files federal suit alleging reverse sex discrimination.
- Lawsuit alleges female supervisor favored women, issued write-ups to him.
- Chevron denies wrongdoing; moves case to federal court.
A former Chevron USA Inc. employee claims in a lawsuit that he was “mistreated and held to a higher standard” and wound up being fired because he was a man working under a female supervisor.
Vincent Morgan of Mobile County, Alabama, claims he worked for years at the Pascagoula refinery without any work-related issues. But in 2023, his lawsuit says, a female supervisor came along.
Morgan “was written up and reprimanded for exaggerated reasons, while female employees violated company policies without repercussion,” his lawsuit says. He was eventually fired after taking family medical leave that his doctor recommended because of the stressful work environment, the lawsuit says.
In a filed response, Chevron has denied any wrongdoing. The company disputes that Morgan had no work-related issues and says, “ . . . the acts of Chevron were at all times justified, taken in good faith, and without malicious or retaliatory intent.”
The lawsuit is pending before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden. Morgan seeks a jury trial with an award of unspecified damages to compensate him for loss of his job, plus punitive damages and legal fees.
EEOC complaint: Supervisor pushed DEI
The lawsuit does not say when Morgan, 57, lost his job. But the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reviewed his complaint and cleared him to file his lawsuit in June.
He initially filed the reverse discrimination case in Jackson County Circuit Court. Chevron had the case removed to federal court in November because Morgan alleges violations of federal civil rights and family medical leave laws.
Once she came aboard, Morgan’s lawsuit says, the female supervisor made “multiple comments” about wanting women to run the department. Morgan’s lawsuit doesn’t say what department he worked in, but he says that he was a “top performer” in terms of production.
He said one female employee was hired in the department without meeting minimum requirements. While female employees were allowed to miss work, Morgan said in his EEOC complaint, attached to the lawsuit, that he was reprimanded “if I so much as leave my computer running too long.”
He also said in the EEOC complaint that his female supervisor wanted to apply diversity, equity and inclusion principles and “lower my standing in the department as a male.”
This story was originally published December 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
