HSBC on Thursday appealed a tribunal’s decision to reinstate a female, senior investment banker’s lawsuit that alleges the bank victimized and discriminated against her when it did not hire her for a senior sales position in 2018.
Carmen Chevalier-Firescu, 41, sued the bank in an employment tribunal in 2020, alleging she was not appointed as the head of HSBC’s London derivatives sales team for hedge funds partly because she had sued her former employer, Barclays BARC.L, for making her redundant after she returned from maternity leave.
Her case was dismissed by a tribunal but reinstated