Two years of complaints, she says - then a denied allegation and a firing
A former PepsiCo coordinator alleges the company failed to stop repeated anti-gay harassment and then fired her weeks after she returned from family leave.
The worker sued PepsiCo, Inc. on July 24, 2026, in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, bringing claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Family and Medical Leave Act. The complaint describes her as a gay man who uses female pronouns and says she worked as a coordinator managing warehouse operations and logistics from May 2022 until her termination.
According to the filing, the harassment ran from about October 2023 through November 2025. The complaint alleges a co-worker refused a work assignment and said he "can't stand gay people." It says another told her that to speak to men she "needed to use a deeper voice," and that two others said they would not share a restroom with her, referring to her with a homophobic slur. The filing further alleges that a co-worker said he "did not like gay people like you" before removing his safety vest in what she took as a move to fight, and that another co-worker later used a homophobic slur.
The complaint says she reported the incidents repeatedly - to her manager, to PepsiCo's human resources department, and to the company's hotline - but that no meaningful corrective action followed and she continued working alongside the same people.
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