Yanowitz v. L'OREAL USA, INC.

Opinion

GEORGE, C. J.

Plaintiff Elysa J. Yanowitz was a regional sales manager employed by defendant L’Oreal USA, Inc. (L’Oreal), a prominent cosmetics and fragrance company. Yanowitz alleges that after she refused to carry out an order from a male supervisor to terminate the employment of a female sales associate who, in the supervisor’s view, was not sufficiently sexually attractive or “hot,” she was subjected to heightened scrutiny and increasingly hostile adverse treatment that undermined her relationship with the employees she supervised and caused severe emotional distress that led her to…