A veteran employee of Walt Disney has filed a new lawsuit against the company, joining the growing list of workers who have allegedly faced discrimination or retaliation in the security division of the well-known resort. The case was filed last week in the Orange County Circuit Court.
The plaintiff, Helena Mobley, has been a Disney employee for almost 24 years where she worked as an administrative assistant.
According to a report from Orlando Sentinel, Mobey claims that she was rejected to get a promotion because she is married to a black man. When she filed a discrimination complaint, an executive informed her that she could no longer work in the security division.
Mobey had no choice but to take the job as a custodial administrative assistant.
"The Security positions are highly coveted and high status positions within the company," reads a statement from the legal documents.
"Conversely, Custodial and Housekeeping divisions are the least favored positions."
Mobley is asserting in her lawsuit that she’s the most eligible person for the executive assistant promotion she was eyeing for but got rejected for.
This is not the only legal charges Disney is facing this month. Last week, CNN reported that the resort was hit with two two-class action suits filed by Leo Perrero and Dena Moore.
The plaintiffs are suing the company for illegally replacing them by foreigners. In January 2015, they were both laid off from working in the IT department at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
Per The New York Times, the company released a statement Monday following Perrero and Moore’s legal threats.
“These lawsuits are based on an unsustainable legal theory and are a wholesale misrepresentation of the facts.”
On Mobey’s case, Disney on Wednesday commented that they will give a response to her allegations in court.
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