A woman has reached a tentative settlement in her lawsuit against Northrop Grumman in which she alleged she was marginalized, her hours were cut and that she was wrongfully terminated from her job as a process equipment coordinator for complaining of sexual harassment by a manager.
Plaintiff Elizabeth Ann Green’s attorneys filed court papers on Tuesday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis notifying her of a “conditional” resolution in the case with the expectation a request for dismissal will be filed by Dec. 1.
No terms were divulged.
In their previous court papers, NG attorneys denied Green’s allegations and said they were barred by the statute of limitations. The lawyers also stated that the plaintiff “acquiesced or consented to the conduct” about which she complained.
According to her suit, Green worked for the company from January 1985 to June 1998 and again from January 2008 to July 2023 as a process equipment coordinator. In 2021, Green was given a new manager who was a “sexist with a gender bias,” the suit stated.
Green also contended that she was harassed by a married employee whose sexual propositions she had rebuffed in 2014. After reporting the alleged sexual harassment, Green’s overtime hours were sharply reduced on weekends, her suit alleged.
Green was further marginalized in 2023 when another manager told her not to perform any of her normal job duties, handed her a bottle of Simple Green industrial cleanser and rags and told her that her job was to clean the shop, which she did for a few weeks, according to the suit filed in March 2024.
Green was terminated in July 2023 and was falsely told in a letter that she had concealed that she had not fulfilled a summons for jury duty and lied when asked about it, the suit stated.