PITTSBURGH — An administrative assistant is suing Young Men and Women’s Hebrew Association, doing business as Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, citing alleged racial discrimination among other violations.
Mary Marcelle filed a complaint on Sept. 17, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, against the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh alleging that the Hebrew community fired Marcelle because of her actual or perceived disability.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that, in July 2017, she was fired by the defendant in retaliation for exercising her Americans with Disabilities Act rights, of her actual or perceived disability.
Furthermore, her non-Jewish race was a motivating factor in the defendant’s decision to fire her rather than grant her additional medical leave. The plaintiff holds Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh responsible because the defendant allegedly retaliated against Marcelle for exercising her rights and misled Marcelle regarding the date on which her Family Medical Leave Act expired.
Additionally, it failed to make reasonable accommodations to Marcelle’s disability.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks full value of wages she would have received had it not been for defendant's illegal treatment of plaintiff, with interest until the date she is offered employment into a position substantially equivalent to the one which she occupied.
Additionally, compensatory damages, punitive damages liquidated damages, costs, and expenses of the suit, and attorney's fee. She is represented by Christine T. Elzer of Elzer Law Firm, LLC in Pittsburgh.
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Case number 2:18-cv-01234-LPL