Bloomberg scrutinized for treatment of employees

Ray Rivera of The New York Times writes Saturday that the recent sexual discrimination lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P. has shed a light on how the financial information and news company treats its employees.

Rivera wrote, “Mr. Brickman did not return calls last night seeking comment on Ms. Czelusniak’s assertion. Two of his federal lawsuits against the company remain open: one filed in New Jersey involving four plaintiffs that accuses the firm of age and sex discrimination, and another in Manhattan involving age, disability and race discrimination.

“The E.E.O.C. lawsuit filed on Thursday stems from complaints made by three women in 2006. After an investigation, the agency’s New York district director, Spencer H. Lewis Jr., determined there was cause to bring a complaint against the company.

“A separate lawsuit was brought by a fourth woman in June that is similar to the complaints described in the E.E.O.C. suit. In the June case, a former account executive, Monica Prestia, says she flourished at the company from 1997 until 2005, when she became pregnant with her first child. After that, she said, she began receiving poor performance reviews, and a form of compensation was reduced. At one point, according to the suit, a supervisor asked her, ‘What is this, your third baby?'”

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