A return-to-office rollout, a vanishing job, and three applications that went nowhere
A former Wells Fargo digital product manager says she was fired two days before returning from maternity leave under cover of a return-to-office shake-up.
Kyra G. Sherman has sued the bank in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, in a case styled Sherman v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 1:26-cv-00258, filed April 28, 2026. Her lawsuit invokes Title VII, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and several Rhode Island employment statutes covering pregnancy, family leave and civil rights.
The story Sherman tells is, on its face, the kind that makes HR leaders wince. According to the filing, she was recruited from Bank of America in June 2022 into what she understood to be a fully remote role. Her supervisors sat in California and Washington. Her teammates were scattered across the country. She says no one ever raised the prospect of an office return.
She took a first maternity leave in October 2022, came back in February 2023, and, the filing states, collected glowing reviews and merit bonuses two years running. Things shifted, she alleges, after she told her managers in July 2023 that she was pregnant again. Work she would normally have handled, the complaint says, started flowing to less capable colleagues. By the time her leave began, Sherman claims she had so little on her plate that she invented a project of her own — a Career Progression...
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