Goldman Worker’s Class Sex Bias Claims ‘Reasonably Related’ to Her EEOC Charge

An employment discrimination plaintiff is not required to include specific class allegations in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge in order to later bring class claims in court, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Jan. 10, denying a bid by Goldman Sachs to strike a former vice president’s class sex bias allegations (Chen-Oster v. Goldman, Sachs & Co.).

Judge Leonard B. Sand rejected Goldman’s contention that a magistrate judge erred in recommending that H. Christina Chen-Oster be allowed to maintain her class claims against the investment bank.

Goldman argued that Chen-Oster did ...