Drisana Rios of San Diego said in a lawsuit that she lost her job with an insurance brokerage firm after a supervisor complained that her children were being noisy during meetings
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A California woman has sued her former employer, saying that she was fired because her young children were making noise during business calls while she was working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The woman, Drisana Rios of San Diego, filed the lawsuit last month against Hub International, a global insurance brokerage firm, alleging gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination.
Rios, 35, said she had “worked harder than I ever have in my entire career” since she transitioned to remote work in March. She said that in addition to doing her job from home, she had to juggle her responsibilities as a caregiver to her 4-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.
“I continued my normal duties as an account executive but now added two young children to the mix,” Rios said in a statement through her lawyer. “It was extremely difficult, but I managed to meet all the deadlines. There was some days where I had to work late to meet rush deadlines or any duties I couldn’t finish during the day because I had to care for both of my young kids at the same time.”
Rios had worked full time as an account executive for Hub International since August 2019. She began working from home in March when Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered Californians to stay at home to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The complaint, filed in Superior Court in San Diego County, outlines several attempts that Rios said she made to assuage her supervisor’s concerns over her ability to meet her work obligations while caring for her children.
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