A JPMorgan Chase supervisor refused to promote a hard-working Brooklyn bank teller because she was black and even told her repeatedly, “You are not the right color for this job,” a new lawsuit claims.
Eveann Metelus, who began working for the Chase branch at Newkirk Plaza in Flatbush in 2007, says her troubles began when Marni Chua became a district manager, her suit claims.
After Chua fired a black woman who was Metelus’ direct boss in 2012, she told Metelus, “That will be your fate,” and when Metelus trained to be a branch manager in 2013, Chua said she was “the wrong color for a branch manger role,” according to the Brooklyn federal court lawsuit.
When Metelus complained, she was temporarily fired, she says, then quit when reinstated in 2014.
A JPMorgan Chase spokesman declined to comment but said the company would investigate the allegations.