
Former employee, Catherine Dunn has filed a lawsuit Friday (8/13) at a Los Angeles Superior Court claiming that while she was on stress-related leave, she was replaced by a “non-disabled and younger employee”. More specifically, she is suing Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network for creating “a hostile work environment”
Dunn, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS), started as an assistant in August 2008, but alleges she was forced to take stress leave and a leave of absence when the symtoms of her disorder brought on by “workplace stress”.
Dunn is suing OWN network for wrongful termination and is seeking unspecified damages.