In a decision largely reversing the trial court, a state appeals court has dismissed discrimination and retaliation claims lodged by a man of Chinese descent against New York City’s Department of Finance and several high-ranking managers there after the man, a former longtime employee, said he’d faced repeated national-origin discrimination and a wrongful demotion.
In a detailed decision, the Appellate Division, First Department court wrote, in part, that the lawsuit’s defendants “proffered evidence supporting several legitimate reasons for demoting” the plaintiff, “including (1) an agency-wide restructuring, (2) plaintiff’s lack of accounting and management skills, and (3) evidence that he was a poor manager whose routinely hostile demeanor demoralized his subordinates, as evidenced by complaints made against him by several of those subordinates.”
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