Flags fly outward of the Goldman Sachs domicile construction in the monetary district of New York Jan 21, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc was sued for purported disposition by a former clamp president, who pronounced the Wall Street bank consigned her to a "mommy track" that led to her banishment whilst she was on maternity leave.
The legal box was filed Wednesday in Manhattan sovereign justice by Charlotte Hanna, who pronounced she worked at Goldman Sachs University, an course module for new analysts, associates and summer interns.
Hanna, a Manhattan resident, purported that after her 2005 lapse from her initial maternity leave, Goldman demoted her and done her feel unwelcome in what had turn a "boys-only" club.
She pronounced she was dismissed in Feb 2009, a week prior to she was to lapse from a second maternity leave.
"When Ms. Hanna motionless to take the "off-ramp" supposing by the organisation to persevere time to her children, there was no "on-ramp" that enabled her to lapse to full-time employment," the censure said. "Essentially, the "off-ramp" was a approach trail to a mommy-track that in conclusion derailed Ms. Hanna"s career."
Goldman mouthpiece Gia Morone declined to comment.
Major U.S. investment banks are continually targets of lawsuits by former workers who lay a little form of discrimination. Hanna"s age was not rught away available.
According to the complaint, Hanna assimilated Goldman in 1998 as an associate, was promoted to clamp boss dual years later, and perceived clever regard for her work.
It pronounced she took value of a Goldman module vouchsafing her work part-time on returning from her initial maternity leave in Feb 2005.
Upon her return, Hanna allegedly strike a "glass ceiling" with apply oneself to compensate and advancement, was demoted, and was evenly released from operations and amicable functions.
The censure pronounced 75 percent of those "selected for termination" in her organisation had not prolonged ago taken maternity leave.
"It is transparent that Goldman Sachs views operative mothers as second-class adults who should be at home with their children," the censure said.
Hanna"s counsel is Douglas Wigdor, a partner at Thompson Wigdor Gilly LLP. He pronounced he additionally represents five women suing Citigroup Inc for purported discrimination.
"We have seen some-more gender and conceiving physically taste cases given the economy began the downturn," Wigdor said.
"I charge it to the actuality that managers are typically men who have unobstructed option about who to terminate," he went on. "They understand that operative mothers might not work as tough as men, and might not be with the organisation as prolonged so they can be with their children. That can have women appear some-more expendable."
The box is Hanna v. Goldman Sachs Co et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 10-02637.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Gary Hill)
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