New Jersey Township Employee Awarded $1.6 Million in Damages in Discrimination Lawsuit

A Berkeley Township employee was awarded $1.6 million in damages after a jury found that township officials had discriminated against her, creating a hostile and abusive work environment.

In 2018, Debra Reuter, supervisor of the Berkeley Township Recreation Department, filed a lawsuit saying that officials including Mayor Carmen Amato and Business Administrator John Camera had discriminated against and harassed her for being Jewish and having anxiety.

On May 25, a jury found that Reuter was discriminated against and that “the conduct was severe or pervasive enough to make a reasonable person who has a mental disability believe the working environment was intimidating, hostile or abusive,” according to court documents.

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