Back on March 14th, FTVLive told you that longtime Harrisburg Anchor Flora Posteraro has been let go at Nexstar's WHTM. 

Posteraro has been at the station for 20 years and anchored the station Noon and 5PM newscasts.

Now she has filed sex discrimination and retaliation complaints against the Nexstar station.

PennLive writes that in the complaint to the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission Posteraro says she lost her job after refusing an involuntary transfer to a weekend anchor/reporting beat.

Posteraro her reassignment took place only after, and in retaliation for, her participation in an August complaint to the station's human resources offices about the station's general manager, Robert Bee.

Bee arrived at WHTM in January 2017, shortly after the station was acquired by Nexstar Media Group, Inc., of Irving, Texas.

In that internal complaint, which is also referenced in Posteraro's case, Bee is accused of making several disparaging comments about women in the news department.

They included:

References to one female anchor as a "mean bitch."
Telling a former news director that one of the station's female reporters looked like a "fat pig" on the air.
Making unspecified racial and sexist comments about the station's morning anchors, and
Describing women who did not follow his restrictive dress code as "street walkers."

Another triggering event, according to Posteraro's complaint, was an ongoing campaign by Bee to get female on-air talent to stop wearing sleeveless dresses because, "no one wants to look at flabby arms."

Aside from the work environment claims referenced above, the complaint notes male on-air staff at WHTM were treated differently in respect to wardrobe issues, and scheduling.

Several WHTM employees, including Posteraro, were interviewed as part of the summer 2017 complaint about Bee, but it was not immediately clear what Nexstar's findings were.

Posteraro alleges in her PHRC complaint that when she was offered a new, two-year contract on Jan. 31, 2018, it contained the same rate of pay but a demotion from her longstanding position as anchor of abc27's noon and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts.

"The decision to move Posteraro was made after and because of Posteraro's complaints," the complaint asserts.

Posteraro filed a second internal complaint with Nexstar on Feb. 5, in which she claimed her demotion "was retaliation for her objections to Bee's treatment of female employees."

In that case, the company concluded - after what Posteraro and her attorney contend was an incomplete investigation - that there was no retaliation.

Posteraro -- whose prior contract with WHTM expired on Dec. 24 -- subsequently informed the station she was not quitting, and was willing to stay in her current role as a daytime anchor.

But on March 12, station executives told her she no longer worked for the company, and that they considered her to have resigned.

 Posteraro's PHRC complaint alleges discrimination on the basis of sex and retaliation under Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act.

Once the formal complaint is served on Bee and Nexstar, they will have 60 days to file a formal answer.