The XYZ Company had twelve employees for the first half of 2014. It signed a contract with a major retailer in June 2014 and hired an additional eight employees to handle the extra work. The contract was cancelled in January 2015, and the company terminated  the eight new hires. In March 2015, another employee was fired. If the employee believed that the termination was discriminatory, could the employee have brought a case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act?