Former Equinox personal trainers manager wins $11 million in lawsuit against former employer
Between 2018 and 2019, Röbynn Europe, a former professional body builder, worked at an Equinox on the Upper East Side, where she managed personal trainers.
Ms. Europe’s tenure at the club was short-lived; Equinox terminated her employment in less than a year because, the company said, she was late 47 times in the course of 10 months. Ms. Europe held a different view of her firing, believing that her lateness was merely a pretext for discrimination, and soon after she filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, arguing that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment and eventually let go because of her race and gender. Last week, a predominantly white jury of five women and three men agreed, delivering a verdict in little over an hour. The next day they awarded her $11.25 million in damages.
In response to the verdict, Equinox did not engage in the current fashion for self-reproach and vows to do better. Instead, it issued a statement saying that it “vehemently disagreed” with the finding and did not “tolerate discrimination in any form.” In the motion it filed asking the court to reconsider the case, either by way of a new trial or a reduction in the award, lawyers maintained that the jurors, “guided by sympathy and emotion,” had “erroneously” bought into the plaintiff’s claim that she had been the victim of racial animus and “issued extreme, unconscionable damages” as a result.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/nyregion/equinox-settlement-discrimination.html
Lol.
Want to be rich in 21st century America? Don't become a Partner at GS or BX. Instead:
>be minority
>work low-skilled job at large corporation
>be so incompetent that you end up fired
>sue corporation for big check because "muhhh racism"
What a disgrace.
Seems like a case of bias in the jurors. 8 fully liberal people would agree to anything a person of color would say just get off with their white savior complex.
Is it possible you don't have all the facts and are coming to a simplistic conclusion? Kind of like the people that thought the Woman that got 4th degree burns from Macdonald's coffee was just looking for free money?
Fair enough. Maybe. But even then, is $11mm really appropriate because some people in the gym had slightly racist behaviors?
Is equinox going to appeal?
China won.
100%. In nearly every metric of a healthy society we've fallen behind and I'm guessing this will only accelerate as we've seen with many other big trends
Clown world. If you did not already think the legal system is a joke this definitely should change your mind. Also expect more of this BS as the next generation of top law school graduates are all ardent SJWs.
Thank god we have a 6-3 supreme court. It won't curb all the excesses no doubt, but it will curb the most egregious ones and finally overturn absolutely moronic precedents established by half a century of liberal courts
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