Fired Fifth Third Bank Workers Lose Sex-Based Bias Claims

Two Kentucky women who claim Fifth Third Bank Inc. treated them differently than male colleagues for violating its cash-vault entry procedures failed to show sex bias, a federal appeals court ruled.

Fifth Third had video of Kelly McLaughlin and Janet Raniero violating its “dual-control policy,” which requires that two different employees use two different keys to enter a vault, remain present throughout the transaction, and note their participation in a log book, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said May 24.

McLaughlin and Raniero also both admitted violating the policy while working at the bank’s “busy” Newport, ...