An Asia equity sales trader who was fired from Citigroup Inc. in 2019 won an employment suit against the US bank, Hong Kong’s Labour Tribunal ruled on Monday.
Citigroup failed to justify its “summary dismissal” of former employee Cindy Lui, Deputy Presiding Officer Grace Chan said at a court hearing in the city. Summary dismissal, or immediate termination without notice and payment in lieu of notice, typically happens when companies decide that employees have committed gross misconduct.
Lui was among a team of Hong Ko