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March 09, 2001
EEOC Says Morgan Stanley Discriminated
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One of the company's top brokers, Allison Schieffelin, filed a formal complaint with the EEOC November 1998, alleging the brokerage denied women promotions and paid them less because of their gender, according to news reports. Scheiffelin's complaint also alleged that the company left female brokers out of firm-sponsored trips to Las Vegas, golf outings and strip clubs.
The EEOC began to investigate Morgan Stanley after Scheiffelin's original complaint and ruled in June that the company engaged in a "pattern and practice of discrimination" against women in its Institutional Equity Division. The EEOC found that Morgan Stanley had discriminated against some female employees with inferior pay, promotions and work conditions compared to their male counterparts.
Less than a year after filing her complaint, the company fired Schieffelin for "insubordination" and "inappropriate conduct."
EEOC District Director Spencer Lewis Jr. found that Morgan Stanley deprived Schieffelin of the accounts, information and resources she needed to do her job, so the company's "assertion of performance problems does not appear credible," the Associated Press reported.
Schieffelin and other women like her are expected to file a class-action suit against Morgan Stanley, according to her lawyer.
Click here to read the complete story in the Washington Post.