Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce hired an outside firm earlier this year to question employees amid allegations of sexual harassment on its trading floor, The Globe and Mail reported.
The investigation is linked to a wrongful-dismissal lawsuit filed in December by Diane Vivares, a former executive assistant to the head of equity markets, who alleges the bank failed to protect her from a "sexually poisoned and toxic work environment" and that a former employee sexually assaulted her at a staff Christmas party in 2007.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
Read Ms. Vivares's statement of claim, the statements of defence and subsequent court filings. The documents contain explicit language and sexual content.