Former GoPuff Delivery Security Officer Files Lawsuit Against Company
Philadelphia PA July 8 2020
A Fairmount woman has filed a federal lawsuit against popular Philly-based delivery service GoPuff, claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a co-worker and then retaliated against by other GoPuff workers.
In the lawsuit, the woman says that she began working as a security guard at the GoPuff warehouse on 12th Street in 2017. That’s the same location that recently drew the ire of neighbors thanks to GoPuff drivers coming to and fro at all hours and sometimes blocking the street.
The woman alleges that a GoPuff driver sexually assaulted her at work in 2018. She reported the incident to management, and according to the suit, she was told that there had been previous allegations against that same GoPuff driver. About two weeks after she filed her report, GoPuff fired the driver, says the suit.
But then, alleges the woman, other GoPuff warehouse employees began to retaliate against her because of the driver’s termination. She says that one employee called her a “bitch” and later added, “I’m going to get so much joy right now to beat you the f up.” The suit claims that a GoPuff warehouse manager also referred to her as a “bitch” within her earshot while talking to an employee about her.
She says she reported the alleged retaliatory behavior to management and that she was told not to come to work until an investigation into those allegations had been completed. A couple of weeks later, she was called into a meeting with management where one manager allegedly told her that she no longer believed the woman’s original allegation of sexual assault. And then she was fired, according to the suit.
The suit accuses GoPuff of allowing “pervasive sexual harassment” in a “sexually hostile work environment” and seeks unspecified damages. A GoPuff spokesperson did not reply by deadline to a request for comment.
