An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker sued the investment bank for around 20.3 million ($22.9 million) to make up for him losing his job after he made whistleblowing allegations about regulatory failures.
Thomas Doyle, who was the bank’s head of synthetic swap sales from 2018 to 2021, said Goldman claimed it fired him for “causing disruption and conflict,” at the start of a London employment tribunal on Tuesday. He alleges that it was in fact because he made multiple whistleblowing claims and the reasons for his firing were a sham.
His “attempt to cast himself as a whistleblower is a transparent and lamentable effort to displace the statutory cap on recovery for ‘ordinary’ unfair dismissal,” Goldman’s lawyer said in court documents.
The amount of money Doyle is claiming would be about 20 times higher than he would have ever been paid in a year, Goldman’s lawyers said. “This is not so much a schedule of loss as a schedule of avarice.”
Awards for unfair dismissal are usually capped at UK employment tribunals at just over 93,000 unless whistleblowing or discrimination are proved, then any award is unlimited.
Doyle said there was no disciplinary process before he suddenly received an email that told him “he was doomed,” according to documents prepared for the hearing. Just before Goldman told him he was going to be dismissed in January 2021, they paid him a bonus of $218,223.
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