Woman claims she was fired because of her ‘whiteness’

Jan 25, 2016 558

by Kathianne Boniello


A Bronx woman believes she lost her job at a nonprofit because she's Italian-American, according to a lawsuit. Anne Marie Nolan-Griffin says her African-American and Hispanic supervisors at AHRC made her the butt of jokes "because of her Italian race," she claims in Manhattan federal court filings.

AHRC employees "regularly made jokes wherein the punch-line centered on Mrs. Nolan-Griffin's Italian ancestry and her 'whiteness,' " the lawsuit says. Nolan-Griffin claims she wasn't allowed to take meal breaks.

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