A dealer at a unit of interdealer brokerage TP ICAP Group Plc sued her employer and Citigroup Inc. alleging each corporations failed to guard her from a dealer on the Wall Avenue financial institution who she claims harassed her for years.
Christine O’Reilly, a New York-based worker at ICAP, alleged in a lawsuit on Monday that she was compelled to place her firm’s earnings forward of her personal wellbeing and endure relentless harassment and undesirable advances from the dealer at Citigroup, a prized shopper.
TP ICAP mentioned in an announcement that it’s the agency’s “policy not to comment on pending litigation.” A consultant for Citigroup declined to remark. Seth Redniss, a lawyer for O’Reilly, declined to remark.
O’Reilly is suing ICAP for alleged discrimination and sustaining a hostile work surroundings, in keeping with the criticism filed in Manhattan on Monday. She additionally claimed Citigroup did not correctly supervise its then-employee, who isn’t named as a defendant within the lawsuit, or take motion towards him after O’Reilly complained on to a supervisor on the financial institution.
In a single occasion, O’Reilly alleges that when she rejected advances by the dealer, Benjamin Waters, he threatened to cut back Citigroup enterprise to ICAP. The lawsuit refers to Waters as a “non-party co-conspirator.” The Citigroup consultant mentioned its workers talked about within the lawsuit are not with the financial institution.
Waters declined to remark. The criticism describes him as appearing as a “high-value Citi trader” on the financial institution’s Delta One MSCI desk in London, with the ability to direct billions of {dollars} in quantity to ICAP.
O’Reilly claims Waters known as her repeatedly outdoors work hours, requested pictures of her and in a single occasion allegedly tried to enter her London lodge room regardless of her refusals, in keeping with the lawsuit.
As a part of her swimsuit, O’Reilly claims that her ICAP supervisor, Janie McCathie, instructed her to “play the game” and put up with the Citigroup dealer’s conduct as a result of he was a giant enterprise generator. O’Reilly mentioned she was anticipated to tolerate and flirt with the dealer, even after rebuffing his advances and reporting them.
McCathie, who is known as as a defendant within the lawsuit, declined to remark.
O’Reilly, who in keeping with the lawsuit joined ICAP as an intern in 2013, is looking for compensation for lack of earnings, emotional misery, attorneys charges and different damages.
