A former executive assistant for the Diane & Guilford Glazer Foundation is suing her ex-employer, alleging she was wrongfully fired in 2021 for taking medical leave to deal with depression associated with a month-long bout with the coronavirus. Veronica Mendez’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit also names Guilford Glazer Properties Inc. as a defendant. The suit states that both the foundation and the company, each based in Beverly Hills, employed her “directly and indirectly.” The suit also alleges disability, race and religious discrimination –
Mendez is a Latina of the Mormon faith – as well as failure to accommodate and engage in the interactive process. Mendez seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
