Suffolk District Attorney defends firing in gender discrimination lawsuit
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley was on the other side of the courtroom last week as a former assistant prosecutor accused Conley’s office of terminating her after she complained she was paid less than male coworkers, The Boston Globe reports.
But Conley said the former prosecutor, Christina Corda, was paid appropriately based on her work experience and was terminated after a hostile, drunken argument about her salary at a 2014 work party, according to the Globe.
“We can’t consider extraneous things like what gender the person is,” Conley said. “That would never come into the conversation. It’s all about merit.”
Corda has sued for unspecified damages, saying she was discriminated against and that the office retaliated against her when she complained. Her lawsuit is asking for unspecified damages, the Globe reports.
“The fact that I was drinking alcohol doesn’t change the fact that I felt I was being discriminated against because I was a woman,” she said.
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