Ex-Goldman Manager Fired After Paternity Leave Seeks £9 Million

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is fighting an £8.9 million ($11.9 million) claim from a former compliance manager who won a sex-discrimination ruling that he was unfairly fired after taking six months of paternity leave.

Jonathan Reeves, who worked in Goldman’s compliance department in London, won an employment tribunal ruling in December that the bank discriminated against him because he was male, and his dismissal in 2022, shortly after returning from leave, was unfair. The court, however, said there was 50% chance that the bank would have dismissed him anyway as part of a redundancy process.

The bank denied the allegations ...