PNC Defeats Christian Ex-Branch Manager’s Religious Bias Claims

PNC Bank NA is free of a former bank manager’s religious discrimination and retaliation claims after a federal judge ruled the worker lacked enough evidence to go to trial.

The Christian ex-manager didn’t identify a similarly situated worker who kept their job after violating bank rules, the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said. Even if she had, the rules violation is a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for her firing, and she failed to show it was actually pretext for bias, the Monday opinion said.

Plaintiff Pamela Catalano, whose coworkers knew of her Apostolic Pentecostal beliefs, alleges ...