My Sterling store District Manager; called me a yellow ignorant monkey; banana, among other slurs just to harass and intimidate me and tried hard to make my life miserable since I was recruited by her and did not stay in her good side. I was threatened that if I did not stay in her good side my job is fried which is true. My Sterling Store Manager; actually fired me in wrongful termination just because she doesn't like me personally also denied me to get my hourly wages to be paid as I was promise a $15.00 an hour ever-since she hired me working for Sterling Company which she owed me from the beginning as she did not paid me that money.
I complaint to sterling Human Resources about how I was treated very nasty by my Sterling Store District Manager but the Sterling Human Resources did not believe me instead I was called a lot of derogatory names even though I was the top sale person. I have research about Sterling Company; and I have found I am not the only Sterling Employee who been treated like from the third world country as there's more but yet I was accused that even my JB Robinson Store Manager dislike me; when my JB Store Manager even wrote me a wonderful employee recommendation that indeed I am an excellent worker. My JB Store Manager likes and love me and we get along fine and we work together side by side and I did not understand that when the Sterling Human resources wrote me a letter said; the reason I was terminated because I do not get along with my JB Store Manager. When I called personally my ex JB Robinson Store Manager said; she never said anything bad or derogatory about me and the Sterling Human Resources did not listen to her and did not honor what she said about me that indeed I am an excellent worker. I was falsely accuse and maliciously attack by slander; libel and defamation of my character by saying I am a trouble maker when I am the one who is an excellent team player. The only reason that the JB Store Assistant Manager do not like me as I sell more than her and the JB Robinson employee; but my JB Robinson Store Manager can testify with that as I work with her side by side almost 95% of my schedule I work with her unless her husband is in the hospital and she could not work due to her husband illness but other than that I always work with my JB Robinson Store Manager therefore; if my JB Robinson Store Manager says personally she never hurt me or tell the JB Robinson anything derogatory then I believe her as she told me face to face that she would never do that ruined me to Sterling Human Resources. When I told the Sterling Human Resources that I have talk to my JB Robinson Store Manager; that it is not true that my JB Robinson Store Manager; says what they says in writing that I am a trouble maker then they hang-up on me. Then when I went to Un-employment office they said it again that I am a trouble maker which I thought it's another defamation of my character and slander; Sterling Human Resources actually trying to destroyed me to get a future employer. The Sterling disparaging comment is very hurtful as it is actually hurting me to get another employer I was attack again maliciously by all their false allegation. What I do not understand; the Sterling Human Resources that even management said; I am a bad employee but how can they say that when my JB Robinson just wrote me a letter of employment recommendation saying I am an excellent employee. I do not understand why the Sterling Human Resources would say that and my JB Robinson Store Manager says different. Anyhow; I pasted a copy from other site that indeed these kind of discrimination exist not only me. I believe my Sterling Store District Manager has something to do with my lossing of my job. It is ashamed as this is the lady who recruited me just because I did not stay in her good side she destroyed my job. The Sterling Human Resources; knows that I am not the problem but they use me as an escape goat and single out.
The Sterling Human Resources; did not fired those who were stealing my sale the JB Robinson Assistant Manager from middle east and the other Asian Employee but they fired the black american especially the JB Robinson black handicap sale employee. The JB Robinson Assistant Manager did not get fired even though she was the one whose stealing the sale of my JB Store Manager and the rest of employees specially my sale. They not even counsel her but let her continue what she is doing stealing our sale. I was single out as I speak up for the wrong doing that the JB Robinson Store assistant manager doing by stealing most of my sale. The reason the turn over is high in JB Robinson is that the JB Store Assistant Manager always pushing away new JB employees when they can sell more than her. The JB Store Manager was sick and while she was having a sick leave for two weeks the Sterling Store District manager was interviewing new store manager applicant knowing our JB Store Manager husband is ill too and also; threatened to loss her job if she speak out for me. The Sterling District Store Manager; treat our JB Robinson very nasty as she is the best and excellent JB Robinson Store Manager and she does not like her personally and treated her very nasty just because my JB Robinson treated me special. So sad; that the JB Robinson or Sterling Company cahnges and fired their employees like a pair of under-ware they changes it almost every other 3 - 6 months. I was treated very nasty by my Sterling Store District Manager and called so many different kind of slurs and no Sterling Human Resources believe me even though I was harass and bullied my coworkers at JB Robinson because I sell. Instead all my words are twisted and made me the wrong employee. I was single out and discriminated because of my National origin and because of my Ethnic back ground. i was wrongfully terminated! I was assaulted by my coworker and the Sterling Human Resources did not help me instead they get rid of me and the person who assaulted me continue to work in JB Robinson.
Here's the proof that indeed these kind of behavior of Sterling Company do exist. If you do not believe me please investigate to the internet there's more about Sterling Company. Cohen Milstein Files Class Action Lawsuit Against Sterling Jewelers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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. “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.”
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 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 [email protected].
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