Branżowa gazeta unii kredytowych Credit Union Jurnal http://www.cujournal.com/news/Fired-CEO-Eyes-Settlement-In-Reverse-Discrimination-Case-1018621-1.html opublikowała artykuł dotyczący sprawy sądowej pomiędzy byłym Dyrektorem Wykonawczym Oskarem Mielczarkiem a PSFUK. Mielczarek wniósł sprawę przeciwko Unii o dyskryminacje. Kopie artykułu przedstawiamy poniżej:
Fired CEO Eyes Settlement In Reverse Discrimination Case
CU JOURNAL - APRIL 7, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. – The former CEO of Polish & Slavic FCU is in talks to settle claims he was fired a year ago because he refused to discriminate in hiring on behalf of people of Polish ethnicity.
The former CEO, Oskar Mielczarek, a one-time JP Morgan banker, claims he was fired because he resisted efforts by the Polish & Slavic board to discriminate against non-Polish people in order to further the aims of the nation’s largest ethnic credit union.
Though Mielczarek, an ethnic Pole himself, understood the board and management expressed strong Polish values when he was hired, he claims the directors took it too far when they “engaged in unlawful racial, ancestral, and ethnic employee hiring and retention practices.”
The two sides have engaged in settlement negotiations recently, with at least one director objecting to a settlement. In a letter filed last week with the court, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Mark Wysocki said he strongly opposes “any form of monetary compensation to be granted to Mr. Mielczarek as part of any kind of settlement.”
Specifically, he claims the board objected strenuously when he fired the credit union’s general counsel Paul Sosnoswki, a former NCUA attorney of Polish heritage. Directors, according to Mielczarek, “indicated when it came to hiring…as had been done historically, with few exceptions, preference should be given to individuals solely of Polish heritage.”
The former CEO, hired in May 2011 and fired a year later, claims his hiring of non-Poles in several management positions angered board members. This situation, according to Mielczarek, was exacerbated when an external community group closely allied to the $1.6-billion credit union, the Civic Committee of PSFCU, which promotes nationalistic Polish ties, complained about Mielczarek’s non-Polish hiring practices.
The group, according to Mielczarek, published several articles in its Polish language newspaper asking the Polish & Slavic board to fire the CEO for actions contrary to the interests of the Polish community for laying off Polish workers and hiring non-Polish employees.
According to the suit, in October 2011, newly elected directors, Malgorzata Gradzki, Beata Klar-Jakubowski, Leon Kokoska and Marzena Wojczulanis, told Mielczarek that any open positions be advertised by and through Polish media and indicated this should be a practice followed by the CEO.
Mielczarek says he brought his complaints to NCUA and they were included in the examiner’s report and shared with his board of directors.
Mielczarek asserts the credit union’s hiring practices violate provisions of the federal Hostile Work Environment statute, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
Fired CEO Eyes Settlement In Reverse Discrimination Case
CU JOURNAL - APRIL 7, 2013
NEWARK, N.J. – The former CEO of Polish & Slavic FCU is in talks to settle claims he was fired a year ago because he refused to discriminate in hiring on behalf of people of Polish ethnicity.
The former CEO, Oskar Mielczarek, a one-time JP Morgan banker, claims he was fired because he resisted efforts by the Polish & Slavic board to discriminate against non-Polish people in order to further the aims of the nation’s largest ethnic credit union.
Though Mielczarek, an ethnic Pole himself, understood the board and management expressed strong Polish values when he was hired, he claims the directors took it too far when they “engaged in unlawful racial, ancestral, and ethnic employee hiring and retention practices.”
The two sides have engaged in settlement negotiations recently, with at least one director objecting to a settlement. In a letter filed last week with the court, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Mark Wysocki said he strongly opposes “any form of monetary compensation to be granted to Mr. Mielczarek as part of any kind of settlement.”
Specifically, he claims the board objected strenuously when he fired the credit union’s general counsel Paul Sosnoswki, a former NCUA attorney of Polish heritage. Directors, according to Mielczarek, “indicated when it came to hiring…as had been done historically, with few exceptions, preference should be given to individuals solely of Polish heritage.”
The former CEO, hired in May 2011 and fired a year later, claims his hiring of non-Poles in several management positions angered board members. This situation, according to Mielczarek, was exacerbated when an external community group closely allied to the $1.6-billion credit union, the Civic Committee of PSFCU, which promotes nationalistic Polish ties, complained about Mielczarek’s non-Polish hiring practices.
The group, according to Mielczarek, published several articles in its Polish language newspaper asking the Polish & Slavic board to fire the CEO for actions contrary to the interests of the Polish community for laying off Polish workers and hiring non-Polish employees.
According to the suit, in October 2011, newly elected directors, Malgorzata Gradzki, Beata Klar-Jakubowski, Leon Kokoska and Marzena Wojczulanis, told Mielczarek that any open positions be advertised by and through Polish media and indicated this should be a practice followed by the CEO.
Mielczarek says he brought his complaints to NCUA and they were included in the examiner’s report and shared with his board of directors.
Mielczarek asserts the credit union’s hiring practices violate provisions of the federal Hostile Work Environment statute, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination.
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