A former executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) filed a lawsuit against the company on Thursday arguing that she was fired after trying to start a family.
Marie Dzanis, a former vice president in the company’s funds and financial intermediaries’ wholesalers’ group, filed a complaint in Manhattan federal court. She joined the company in 2002 and by 2003 she oversaw 52 percent of the bank’s wholesale sales in the United States.
Dzanis alleges that JPmorgan had passed over her in favor of a less qualified male candidate for a promotion to be its national sales manager, a move which she referred in the suit as a “typical of JPMorgan’s ‘boy’s club’ atmosphere.”
Dzanis was fired in May of 2007 and JPMorgan provided her a reduced severance package that required her to waive certain legal rights.
The lawsuit seeks at least $4 million in total damages, including lost back pay and future earnings, as well as compensatory and punitive damages, and other remedies.
