A former executive assistant at S&P Global Inc. claims in a lawsuit that she was fired after complaining that her boss had sexually harassed her.
(Bloomberg) — A former executive assistant at S&P Global Inc. claims in a lawsuit that she was fired after complaining that her boss had sexually harassed her.
Natalie Sanchez claims the New York-based data analytics firm refused her request to be assigned to a new supervisor after the harassment started and instead allowed her “to be treated like a sex object by her male boss.”
A few months later, the company fired her after 34 years of service, she said in the complaint, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court.
S&P Global didn’t respond to requests for comment sent after regular business hours.
The harassment started at a holiday party in 2017 when her supervisor walked up to her and started rubbing her back, Sanchez said. She said it continued in 2019 when the two started working occasionally in the same offices and she would notice him staring at her breasts and buttocks.
Sanchez said she complained to Human Resources in May 2020 and asked for a transfer but her request was denied. A few months later, she was informed her position had been eliminated and that she no longer had a job, according to the complaint.
The company “not only turned a blind eye to the trauma and devastation a woman in her position has to face but punished plaintiff for engaging in protected activity by terminating her employment,” her lawyers wrote in the complaint.
Sanchez claims the company violated state and federal civil right laws that prohibit workplace harassment and retaliation against employees who complain about abuse. She is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
The case is Sanchez v. S&P Global, Inc. et al, 23-cv-00576, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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