Fidelity said the couple were given the chance to decide who would transfer within the company or leave, but Frank maintains she was pressured to leave. The firm said it offered to give Frank a comparable job, and she had instead chosen to resign in 2009. Frank said the offer was a step down.
Frank also leveled an accusation at the supervisor asking her to move to another role: Eric Wetlaufer, the chief investment officer for the group overseeing funds that invest in international stocks and one of Fidelity’s top money-management executives.
Double Standard?
Wetlaufer was having an “illicit extra marital affair’’ with his own subordinate in Hong Kong, she claimed in her July 2010 filing with the Massachusetts anti-discrimination agency. He left the company three months after Frank’s departure and four months before she filed the complaint. Wetlaufer is now head of public-market investments for Canada’s pension fund. He declined to comment.
Frank divorced her husband and married von Rekowsky, who stayed at Fidelity until December 2016. At Fidelity, her replacement, who was male, was paid more than she was, according to her complaint. Frank declined to comment.
In the third settled complaint, Heather DaSilva, an accountant for one of Fidelity’s subsidiaries, said her supervisors retaliated against her in 2008 after one of their friends was forced to leave the company for sexually harassing her and other women. Fidelity didn’t respond to questions about the case.
In her state filing, DaSilva said the human-resources department didn’t address the problem. Instead, it offered her three months of severance. Fidelity had been more generous to the man she accused of harassing her, she said. He walked away with six months of pay.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.