By Kirstin Ridley
LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs banker and self-proclaimed whistleblower is suing his former employer for more than 20 million pounds ($23 million) for unfair dismissal in a London claim the Wall Street bank has labelled "cynical" and "lamentable".
The bank said the claim by Thomas Doyle, its former EMEA head of synthetic swap sales who is suing Goldman Sachs International and four senior bankers, was "scarcely believable".
"This is not so much a schedule of loss as a schedule of avarice," it stated in documents filed with the central London employment tribunal and seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
The public war of words is rare as the vast majority of employment lawsuits are settled before they come to court.
Doyle, who worked at Goldman Sachs from late 2018 to 2021, has alleged he was unfairly dismissed with a "woeful" lack of proper procedure after he made multiple whistleblowing reports to managers and that he was forced to deal with "vile and bullying language".
He alleges he was fired in 2021 with no warning letter or proper performance management after raising concerns about whether the bank was treating customers fairly - and that he was told he was "causing disruption and conflict", a court document seen by Reuters on Monday showed.
Goldman Sachs alleges that Doyle made no real protected disclosures during his tenure and is trying to circumvent a statutory cap of roughly 90,000 pounds on damages for unfair dismissal by bringing an...
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