Tapestry Sued for Firing Coach Brand Exec Upon Return From Maternity LeaveA former global brand manager says she was retaliated against for taking time off after having a child.

[Collection]A former corporate employee of Coach is accusing the company of firing her without cause days after she returned from maternity leave. Monica Jean Baptiste filed suit against recently renamed Coach parent company Tapestry Inc., telling a New York federal court that after working since 2016 as a managing member of the global brand managing team, which included managing the Coach brand and overseeing buying, she was fired in January, only two days after she retired from three months of approved maternity leave. “Both prior to, during and up until she was terminated, defendants voiced no criticism of [Jean Baptiste], did not inform her that her position was in jeopardy or that she had any reason to be concerned about her position,” she wrote in her complaint filed last month. Jean Baptiste also claims to have received in August a performance review, about a month before she went on maternity leave the day she went into labor in September, and was told she’d “met or exceeded” all of her job goals and was given a full bonus that included stock options set to vest after four years. While on maternity leave, Jean Baptiste said she regularly contacted her boss, Moira Breen, vice president

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