“It was more of her attitude that was substandard than her performance,' Nick LaLota said in a deposition. 'Sadly, her performance was pretty decent.'
election clerk for the county back in 2012. In her federal lawsuit filed after her dismissal, Montanino alleges that a fellow election clerk began “subjecting [her] to offensive and unwelcome sexual gestures, sexual touching, and sexual comments at work” starting in 2013. The colleague allegedly tried to massage her shoulders, made “sexually suggestive comments” about having sex, and even referred to his own spouse by Montanino’s name.
By 2015, Montanino had complained about his behavior to management and even the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Then she submitted another written complaint addressed directly to LaLota in his position as commissioner. “This kind of behavior is uncomfortable and unacceptable. I should be able to come to work and not feel threatened, intimidated, insulted or ashamed,” Montanino wrote in September 2015, according to the lawsuit. “Move on and forget it, is easily said than nothing done.
By April, Montanino seemed to have had enough. A supervisor said Montanino should “go to the police or stop complaining,” so she did as instructed and filed a complaint with the Suffolk County Police Department on April 3, 2016. The lawsuit quotes part of her police complaint: “[Montanino] states having on-going problems with suspect at work. [Montanino] states suspect follows her around work and stares at her. [Montanino] states he says inappropriate things to her, he has told her he has wanted to f*** her and has made inappropriate kissing gestures to her. [Montanino] has made numerous complaints to her supervisor and he has been told to leave her alone, but the behavior has continued.
About two weeks later, Montanino says she was finally provided with an “official” sexual harassment complaint form to file. She was told to bring it in by Wednesday April 20, 2016, a day after Election Day—but she says she worked about 10 hours with no breaks or lunch on Election Day and didn’t have time to meet the deadline.Before she could get to work on that Wednesday, LaLota fired her on a cell phone call, according to her suit.
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