Truist Bank Must Defend Hostile Work Environment, Firing Claims

A former employee of Truist Bank Inc. can proceed with claims that she was subjected to a hostile work environment and discrimination on the basis of her gender, a federal trial court ruled.

Plaintiff Sherri Foster sufficiently alleged that the bank is vicariously liable for harassment by her supervisor that “culminated in” her discharge, Judge Leigh Martin May of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta said Monday.

The court declined to adopt a magistrate judge’s finding that because the last reported incident of harassment and Foster’s termination were over a year apart, the two ...