{"id":1731,"date":"2024-07-10T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/world-economic-forum-klaus-schwab-sued-for-pattern-of-abuse-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T20:02:31","slug":"world-economic-forum-klaus-schwab-sued-for-pattern-of-abuse-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/world-economic-forum-klaus-schwab-sued-for-pattern-of-abuse-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab Sued For Pattern of Abuse, Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The World Economic Forum and its founder Klaus Schwab, who host the annual Davos retreat in Switzerland to address global challenges,\u00a0have been hit with a discrimination lawsuit this week for claims that the organization wrongfully terminated and retaliated against a Black woman\u00a0following her maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>New York City-based\u00a0employment firm Wigdor filed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pdfserver.amlaw.com\/legalradar\/pm-54188657_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">complaint<\/a>\u00a0July 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Topaz Smith, a pregnant Black woman, who claims she was fired\u00a0from the organization following\u00a0her maternity leave and replaced with a white woman who was not pregnant.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Economic Forum and its founder Klaus Schwab, who host the annual Davos retreat in Switzerland to address global challenges,\u00a0have been hit with a discrimination lawsuit this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[362,349,560,776,2439,2441,2440,412,190],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-abuse","tag-discrimination","tag-economic","tag-forum","tag-klaus","tag-pattern","tag-schwab","tag-sued","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}