Woman defends training video former co-worker calls discriminatory

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Woman defends training video former co-worker calls discriminatory

Los Angeles Wave
Bill Hetherman
11/21/2008

A former Costco manager — demoted for her role in the making of a training video that is now the focus of a gay, HIV-positive worker's lawsuit — denied last Friday that the video targeted the plaintiff.

Elaine Ponce told a Los Angeles Superior Court jury hearing Juan Valera's case that she was surprised to find out that he later made a complaint against her regarding the video, which contained a reference by one of the participants to an "Auntie Juan.''