Wyeth says employee didn’t lodge complaints
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A former Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc. employee who is suing the company testified in a deposition that she could not recall telling management or her union that she felt she faced race discrimination, lawyers for the company said in court papers filed this week.
Wyeth lawyers cited the deposition testimony of Nadine Aspilaire, who worked at the company’s Pearl River campus from 2000 through January 2005, to bolster their argument that U.S. District Court Judge William C. Conner should dismiss her lawsuit.
Aspilaire, who took a job at Par Pharmaceutical Cos. Inc. after leaving Wyeth, is one of seven black current and former Wyeth employees to sue the company alleging race discrimination. A judge dismissed two suits and a jury rule in the company’s favor in another.
Aspilaire worked as a packaging operator and biological operator. She alleged she faced discrimination in pay, hours and promotions because of her race.
Aspilaire and her lawyer said in court papers that she made a number of complaints to the human resources department, managers and her union shop steward that she was being treated differently than white workers.
But the company maintains that she testified differently in her deposition.
Aspilaire’s lawyer could not be reached for comment on the company’s recent court filing.
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