Former banker says dismissal from Genesis Investment Management came after complaints about her management style
Goldman Sachs Group banker says a London fund used the fact that she worked at the US investment bank against her, telling her to remove any reference to it on her resume.
She alleged that the fund applied double standards when it came to her behaviour as opposed to her male colleagues. If she were a man her “success and direct approach” would have been prized by the firm, she said.The resume deletion allegation does not form part of the sex discrimination claim and the tribunal will not need to rule on whether it happened.
“The discrimination is that there’s a stereotype of culture they think is at Goldman Sachs” and those stereotypes are “used to discriminate against women”, she told London employment judges at a hearing on January 26. “I was told to remove Goldman Sachs multiple times from my CV. They’re using the same definitions to stereotype me and they think it’s the culture.”
“We refute the allegation, made for the first time by Ms Koktenturk during her oral evidence to the tribunal last week, that she was asked to remove a reference to any of her previous employers on her CV,” a spokesperson for Genesis said by e-mail. “As a firm we are proud to have recruited professionals from across the global investment market and we treat all of our Genesis colleagues with dignity and respect.
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