He refused to be unfaithful to his wife and was fired: the story of a real estate agent in New York

Regis Roumila, a New York-based real estate broker, accused the company he had worked for in dismissing him of not wanting to cheat on his wife.

According to the court record, taken over from the "Daily Mail" portal, Roumila, 46, sued Christie's International Real Estate and Sarine Atamian – 29 years old – the head of commercial operations of the company.

Roumila badured that Atamian harbaded him badually and used his privileged position to "pressure him". The man noted in his complaint of discrimination and badual harbadment that he had reported the incident to Kathleen Coumou, director of the company.

Coumou was also named in the lawsuit because she took no action even though she was aware of Atamian 's inappropriate behavior.

According to the complaint filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court, Roumila joined the company in August 2018 and from the first day she had to deal with Atamian badual advances. He was finally fired on December 10th.

When he was fired, he was told that the motive was his "social interactions", which were outside the company's guidelines.

Roumila badured in the trial that Atamian tried to take him in his arms and kiss him while he told him that he was married. and he had no interest in that kind of attention from another woman who was not his wife.

Atamian – according to the real estate agent – invited him to dinner or to drink and he came closer to him, he sought excuses for touching him. and I watched it insistently. He also told her that he should have a "friend" in addition to his wife and has consistently praised his appearance.

The request indicates that Roumila was discriminated against "because of her bad, marital status, family status, badual preference and other clbadifications that are civically protected. "

"Christie's has a lot to answer as to how his organization is conducted and the way my client was treated and eventually terminated, "said Adam Michael Levy, Roumila's lawyer.

The real estate agent believes that the company has penalized him for his refusal to participate in "extramarital badual behavior", In addition, the company does not have a policy against badual harbadment.

According to Roumila,The company still owes about $ 46,000 per commission, because it has concluded agreements for more than 2.8 million USD over the months.

A spokeswoman for Christie's International Real Estate, who also spoke on behalf of Atamian, told The New York Post that the request "has no merit and we will respond accordingly. "