CARMEL RICKARD: Getting a fair shake
A JPMorgan employee set out to clear her name after being disciplined and dismissed for e-mailing ‘confidential’ company information to her home
It has always seemed a good idea to assume that other people know a great deal more about finance and computers than I do. So it was strange to find that so well-known and highly regarded a firm as JPMorgan Equities SA should make a pretty basic mistake about both. But perhaps the mistake was less about the technicalities involved in the company’s dispute with an employee, and more about fairness — and not listening. The employee here is Deanne Gordon, who worked for JPMorgan as an equity strategist for more than 20 years. She resigned in June 2013 after her father became ill. Before Gordon left the company, she sent "certain information" to her husband’s computer. While JPMorgan claimed the material was confidential, she said it was public information.
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