EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee. v. J.M. HUBER CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

After defendant-appellant, J.M. Huber Corporation (Huber), denied a promotion to Brenda Adams and fired her about a month later, Adams filed a joint charge of discrimination with the Texas Commission on Human Rights and with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), plaintiff-appellee, alleging racial discrimination in violation of § 703 of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2. After Adams filed her Title VII charge against Huber with the EEOC, Huber informed Adams that she could not receive funds that Huber had paid on her behalf into a qualified employee benefit…