Case: Discrimination/Disparate Treatment (S.D.N.Y.)

A New York federal district court denied the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s motion to dismiss national origin discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation claims brought by a Russian manager who alleged he was disciplined for behaviors that non-Russian colleagues engaged in without consequence, paid less than older peers, subjected to comments about Russians being “too direct,” and terminated shortly after filing complaints with the EEOC, finding his allegations of disparate treatment, discriminatory comments, and temporal proximity between protected activities and termination sufficient to state plausible claims.

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