The employees contend they were discriminated and retaliated against. One had successfully sued the agency before.
That retaliation included being moved from a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job at NJ Transit headquarters in Newark to a Kearny warehouse, where she had to report to work at 6:30 a.m. and work 12-hour days without overtime, she claimed. Three people who worked for her were either fired or retired and then not allowed to be replaced, she said.
NJ Transit officials said they have implemented new harassment and discrimination training for employees and reduced a backlog of complaints waiting to be investigated. “They lost two long time incredibly dedicated, knowledgeable employees because of discrimination,” Smith said., who banded together against anyone who complained,” Smith said. “Some of them are gone.”
“It’s been an ongoing, hard-fought case,” said Ravi Sattiraju, Rivera’s attorney. “We hope for the sake of the workers and the public that things get better and leadership starts taking employee and workers right more seriously and that more oversight is provided by other branches of government.” “It’s best...to nip it adding well trained management. It has to come from the top,” said Kevin Corbett, NJ Transit CEO and President. “We take every compliant seriously and generally we see the numbers coming down.”
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