Ex-Facebook Employee Files Discrimination Suit
The same law firm representing the plaintiff in the much-publicized ongoing case against venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also has Facebook in its sights.
The same law firm representing the plaintiff in the much-publicized ongoing case against venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also has Facebook in its sights.
San Francisco-based Lawless and Lawless — which is representing former partner Ellen Pao in her gender-discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins — is also representing former Facebook program manager and technology partner Chia Hong in a similar case, Re/code reported.
Hong filed suit against the social network, alleging sex discrimination, sexual harassment and race/national origin discrimination (Taiwanese), according to Re/code, saying in her suit that she was treated differently during her tenure at Facebook, which lasted from June 2010 through October 2013.
According to the suit, Hong said she was “belittled” and asked “why she did not just stay home and take care of her children,” as well as punished for taking time off to volunteer at her child’s school and “ordered to organize parties and serve drinks to male colleagues.”
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