The regional manager allegedly arranged an off-site Panera Bread meeting — it wasn't about work
A former Truist banker says he was fired by the same regional manager who allegedly harassed him — after he turned down the manager's advances.
Kenneth Ehiogie, who worked as a relationship banker at Truist Bank's Conshohocken, Pennsylvania branch, filed a lawsuit on March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Ehiogie v. Truist Financial Corp. et al., Case No. 2:26-cv-01997). The suit names Truist Financial Corp., Truist Bank, and Jared Alvis, a regional manager titled Retail Area Leader I, as defendants. It raises claims of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, and unlawful termination.
Ehiogie says he was hired in or around February 2022. According to the filing, Alvis oversaw multiple Truist branches, including his. Starting in late 2023 and into early 2024, Ehiogie alleges Alvis made repeated unwanted physical contact during branch visits, going to his desk and brushing his hands against Ehiogie's hands and arms.
Then, in the spring of 2024, things allegedly escalated. Alvis called the branch and, through one of Ehiogie's supervisors, asked him to meet at a nearby Panera Bread restaurant. Ehiogie says he went, believing he would be fired if he refused. When he arrived, Alvis was sitting alone in a booth.
What followed, according to the lawsuit, was not a work conversation. Ehiogie says Alvis praised...
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