Female KMPG Managers, Senior Managers & Managing Directors File Gender Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Complaint Against KPMG.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Big Four accounting firm KPMG LLP (“KPMG” or “Defendant”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging, among other things, that KPMG engages in systemic discrimination against its female Managers, including but not limited to Managers, Senior Managers and Managing Directors through alleged discriminatory pay and promotion policies and practices well as alleged systemic failure to properly investigate and resolve complaints of discrimination and harassment, according to a KPMG gender discrimination class action lawsuit news report.
The KPMG gender discrimination class action lawsuit complaint is reportedly brought on behalf of a putative class of former and current female employees of KPMG who have worked as Managers at KPMG since 2008.
The KPMG gender discrimination class action lawsuit reportedly seeks
declaratory and injunctive relief, including back pay and front pay; compensatory, nominal, and punitive damages; and attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses.
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I am actually surprised to read about this. I have worked with KPMG India for a period of 13 months after a long stint with another big 4 and industry.
I encountered an extremely hostile environment and gender based harassment which classify as sexual harassment. For some reason, though there is a direction from Supreme Court of India in 1997 that all employers should follow Vishaka Guidelines, and HR manual was silent on the Inquiry Committee and onlu encouraged victims of such offensive behaviour to ‘ Speak With HR or Reporting partner ‘.
In my case, when nothing happend, I escalated to the Oversight Board which had Partners from US, UK, Singapore Practice. However, soon thereafter, I was terminated with no inquiry and rather, I was told that all my allegations are baseless, but there was no inquiry held.
I escalated to International Ethics Committee throug theit hotline reporting who responded that ‘ it was not within their jurisidiction’
So, I have been fighting a legal battle in a country that is in the news for various levels of corruption and civil society fighting for a LoKPal Bill.
Are the email addresses also made public. The reason I ask is that I do not want any backlash through offensive emails to me.