Roshani Sheth, a former product manager at Realtor Information Network, filed a lawsuit after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigated racial and sexual harassment claims against her.
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A woman who works for the National Association of Realtors filed a lawsuit this week seeking more than $1 million after she said she was fired for complaining about sexual harassment and discrimination at the office.
The lawsuit was filed by Roshani Sheth, who worked at NAR from May 2014 to October 2019.
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Roshani Sheth
Sheth said she filed a complaint of discrimination in June 2019 and was fired from the organization in October of that year. She claimed her firing was in retaliation for filing internal complaints against senior vice president Donna Grand, director of talent Linda Russell and chief counsel Katie Johnson.
Sheth said she received a settlement agreement on Dec. 19, 2019, that included a payment as a result of her formal complaint of discrimination and retaliation.
NAR’s “administrators repeatedly attempted to sabotage [Sheth’s] Career damage to her finances and reputation,” the complaint states.
Some details of Shays’ complaint first came to light in an exposé. New York Times from August 2023 That was repeated in a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.
Sheth’s complaint alleges that NAR engaged in several acts of retaliation after signing the settlement agreement. This includes not providing neutral references to potential employers, allowing “or encouraging” employees to stalk Shays online, and sending harassing and threatening text messages.
“The National Association of REALTORS® is committed to cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace,” a NAR spokesperson said in response to the complaint. “We do not comment on employment matters.”
The text messages included messages from unknown numbers that included the abbreviations for “suicide” and “rat,” according to the complaint. After receiving the text message, she reported the incident to the police. era reported last year.
Sheth claimed that NAR refused to provide Sheth with neutral references and “didn’t even confirm that she had ever worked for” NAR. Sheth claims she has been unemployed for 14 months since leaving NAR in late 2019 due to a lack of certification of neutrality.
according to New York Times, Sheth filed charges of racial discrimination and sexual harassment with the Illinois Department of Human Rights in July 2020. era The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is reportedly reviewing the claim [EEOC] last year.
Sheth said the EEOC issued a “right to sue” letter in March 2024. . Sheth filed the complaint on June 18, 90 days after receiving the right-to-sue letter.
In 2020, Sheth opened real estate legacyis a brokerage and project management firm in her hometown of Chicago.
Sheth is seeking $200,000 in actual damages and $1 million in punitive damages.
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