Claims 'undisclosed personal relationship' was friendship, not affair
By Jim Wilson
Aug 13, 2024
The Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) former chief financial officer has filed a nearly $50-million lawsuit against the bank claiming she was wrongfully dismissed and that what the employer did tainted her reputation.
Nadine Ahn filed the lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Aug. 8, saying that allegations by RBC that she had an “undisclosed close personal relationship” with another employee who received preferential treatment has no merit, the Canadian Press reported.
The employer’s decision to fire her was tainted in part by gender-based stereotypes about friendships between women and men, she claimed in the lawsuit, according to the report.
RBC fired both Ahn and Ken Mason – the colleague with whom she had allegedly had an “undisclosed” relationship – back in April.
The way the bank made the announcement caused the widespread belief that Ahn and Mason, both of whom are married with children, according to their filings, were having an affair, Ahn’s lawsuit claimed.
Back then, RBC’s investigation found evidence that Ahn was “in an undisclosed close personal relationship with another employee which led to preferential treatment of the employee including promotion and compensation increases,” said RBC. This is in contravention of the RBC Code of Conduct.
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