Debrahlee Lorenzana said she was dressing professionally, but her male bosses and co-workers still found her too hot be around their cold cash.
Saswat Pattanayak
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Lorenzana went to work for Citibank as a business banking officer at their Chrysler Building branch in September of 2008. “Shortly after the commencement of her employment, branch manager Craig Fisher and assistant branch manager Peter Claibourne began articulating inappropriate and sexist comments concerning plaintiff’s clothing and appearance,” her court filings say.
Saswat Pattanayak
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“The improper comments made to plaintiff by Fisher and Claibourne included, but were not limited to, advising her that she must refrain from wearing certain items of clothing, in particular, turtleneck tops, pencil skirts, fitted business suits, or other properly tailored clothing.
Carrie Schechter
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“In blatantly discriminatory fashion, plaintiff was advised that as a result of the shape of her figure, such clothes were purportedly ‘too distracting’ for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear.” Lorenzana “complained to management, pointing out that other female colleagues wore similar professional attire,” and that some dressed far more provocatively, her court filing says.
Steven Hirsch
