Woman files gender bias lawsuit over N.D. oil patch work
In her lawsuit, Marchello says that she started working for the Texas-based oil company in Williston as a pump operator in October of 2012 but was later pulled and switched to a desk job. She lost her field job, she says, after an official from company client Kodiak Oil and Gas told her boss that he didn't like women working in the field.
Marchello says she pleaded to get her old job back, which was on track to pay about $120,000 annually, but that her manager told her it was "too dangerous" and "too cold" for her in the field.
While on her desk job, in which she says she could earn less than half her original pay, Manchello says learned she was being paid $2 less than men with "equivalent experience and tenure with the company.
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" When she complained, she says her supervisor told her to "shut her mouth" if she wanted to keep her job.
She says a new supervisor also told her she will "suffer a cruel, slow death at my hands" after she suggested they "have to get along."
Eventually, Marchello filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but says company representatives threatened to cut her benefits and pay. Shortly after, she resigned because she was "stressed and fearing for her health and well-being."
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