JB Robinson Waldorf Maryland; Sterling Company. Defamed my character and wrongfully destroyed my life and terminated my job. My District Store Manager trying to fired my JB Robinson Store Manager because her sale is very low and been interviewing future store manager candidates when she still working there. My store manager did not says anything derogatory about me as I ask her personally since I am her witness but the JB Robinson Sterling Company insist that my store manager is saying a derogatory about me when my JB Robinson wrote me a letter of recommendation of employment. The sterling company trying to make my JB Robinson store manager look bad and telling me my store manager is the one whose reporting me that I am not a good employee when my store manager is the one who advice me to report my Sterling District store manager as she keep calling me a yellow monkey among other slurs words that you cannot swallowed. Here's the proof that sterling company do not respect employees and discriminate those who came from a third world country. I am looking for a Lawyer who can help me for defaming my character as a human being. We have the best JB Robinson Store Manager but the Sterling District Manager is giving her hardtimes because my JB Robinson Store manager likes me. Cohen Milstein Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sterling Jewelers. WASHINGTON -- The law firm of Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs, announced that it has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of New York on March 18, 2008 on behalf of 15 current and former female employees of Sterling Jewelers, the nation's largest chain of jewelry stores. Sterling Jewelers was charged with committing widespread sex discrimination against its female retail sales employees. Sterling Jewelers operates more than 1300 stores located in shopping malls and centers in every state in the nation. The stores operate under at least 12 retail brand names, including Jared The Galleria of Jewelry, Kay Jewelers, Belden Jewelers, JB Robinson Jewelers, Marks & Morgan Jewelers, Weisfield Jewelers, Osterman Jewelers, Shaw's Jewelers, Rogers Jewelers, LeRoy's Jewelers, Goodman Jewelers and Friedlanders Jewelers.The suit was filed by 15 current and former female employees who have worked at stores located in New York, Florida, California, Texas, Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, Nevada and New Jersey. The suit claims Sterling Jewelers has engaged in a pattern or practice of sex discrimination by denying female retail sales employees equal opportunities to be promoted into and within management jobs, and by paying them less than men performing the same work, at the same levels, in the same stores and at the same time period. The suit seeks fundamental changes to Sterling's personnel policies, as well as awards of earnings and benefits lost because of discrimination and compensatory and punitive damages."While Sterling Jewelers sold more than $ 1 billion in jewelry last year, it "While Sterling Jewelers sold more than $ 1 billion in jewelry last year, it failed to pay the women behind the counter the same wages it paid men and failed to offer them the same chances for promotion." said Joseph M. Sellers, a partner in Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC and co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs. Sam J. Smith, Burr & Smith, co-lead counsel said, "It is outrageous that female employees with similar experience were hired for several dollars per hour less than male employees working in the same job in the same store." "Sterling treated female employees as second class citizens in their promotion practices as well and gave preferences to men who were significantly less qualified, " added Tallahassee attorney and co-lead counsel Thomas A. Warren. After examining sworn charges of discrimination filed by the plaintiffs and reviewing statistical analyses of Sterling's workforce data, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found reasonable cause on January 3, 2008, to believe Sterling subjected its female retail sales employees throughout the company "to a pattern or practice of sex discrimination in regard to promotion and compensation."
The plaintiffs' attorneys have established a toll-free number for individuals who have information regarding the allegations or who want information about the lawsuit; that number is 866 854-5152 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 866 854-5152 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Sterling Jewelers is a wholly owned the UK-based company Signet. It is traded on the NYSE as SIG.A copy of the Sterling complaint is available on www.cmht.com. For additional information, or to speak with attorneys on the case, please contact Deborah Schwartz at
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