Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Equal employment officer settles discrimination suit with city for $225,000

By Stephen Rex Brown, New York Daily News

A former city equal employment opportunity officer who said she was fired after investigating allegations of discrimination among high-ranking members of ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration has settled her suit for $225,000.

Special Hagan alleged in her Manhattan Federal Court suit she was retaliated against after aggressively investigating allegations in 2010 that Katherine Oliver, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, had fired qualified black and Hispanic employees and replaced them with unqualified white ones.

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