Ragnetti v. State Division of Human Rights

After over 10 years of employment with TLB’s predecessor company and over two years with TLB, the petitioner was discharged. The petitioner filed a complaint alleging sexual discrimination in that she was discharged because she declined to respond to the sexual advances of her supervisor. TLB’s answer stated that the petitioner was laid off as the result of a work force consolidation, and denied that the petitioner was laid off due to her failure to succumb to any sexual advances. The record contains, inter alia, written statements by five of the petitioner’s former co-workers stating that…