{"id":1029,"date":"2014-12-18T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:34:17","slug":"bank-employee-barred-from-building-after-reporting-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/bank-employee-barred-from-building-after-reporting-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Employee Barred from Building After Reporting Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Picarella, an employee of HSBC\u2019s Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan, filed a lawsuit against the bank earlier this year for harassment. After attempting to return to work after the Thanksgiving holiday, he was surprised to discover that he was being\u00a0<\/span>barred from entering<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the building.
\nThe 47-year-old Picarella originally filed the lawsuit with claims that the bank had retaliated<\/a> against him unfairly after he and one other HSBC employee alerted higher-ups to one supervisor encouraging a female employee to \u201cdress provocatively\u201d and to sleep with one of the company\u2019s senior bankers. According to the lawsuit, the young female employee was the victim of sexual harassment<\/a> on numerous occasions, and was also routinely spanked and once nearly had her top ripped off of her by her boss, Eileen Hedges.
\nPicarella claims that he was demoted from sales executive to junior banker after reporting the incidents to human resources. When he attempted to return to the building on December 1 after the holiday weekend, fellow employees were streaming into the building but he was not allowed into the building. He has not been given any indication from HSBC about when or even if he will be allowed to return.
\nHSBC has denied all allegations of discrimination against Picarella and harassment against the young woman, claiming that it as an organization values a \u201csafe speak-up culture\u201d and encourages employees to alert higher-ups to wrongdoing within its offices.
\nIf you believe that you have been unfairly punished after reporting harassment or other types of wrongdoing within your organization, consult the experienced New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia\u00a0<\/span>employment discrimination attorneys<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with the Derek Smith Law Group, PLLC.<\/p>\n

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Michael Picarella, an employee of HSBC\u2019s Fifth Avenue location in Manhattan, filed a lawsuit against the bank earlier this year for harassment. After attempting to return to work after the Thanksgiving holiday, he was surprised to discover that he was being\u00a0barred from entering\u00a0the building. The 47-year-old Picarella originally filed the lawsuit with claims that the … Continue reading “Bank Employee Barred from Building After Reporting Harassment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-new-jersey-lawyer","category-new-york-city-lawyer","category-philadelphia-lawyer","category-sexual-harassment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}