Israeli Bank Employee’s Suit Over CEO’s Alleged Sex Bias Revived

Bank Hapoalim BM must face an executive assistant’s lawsuit alleging its CEO discriminated against her based on her sex after she complained about him exposing the office to Covid-19, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.

The woman’s forced transfer to a different department following her complaint could be an adverse employment action under the US Supreme Court’s decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, a unanimous appeals panel said. Muldrow only requires “some harm” to a worker’s terms or conditions of employment and the woman’s compulsory move to another department and away from her role as executive assistant to ...