Her attempts to use Ford's own reporting channels allegedly made things worse
A new lawsuit accuses Ford's own HR team of silencing harassment complaints and helping push out the employee who raised them.
Ayanna A. Lynn, a former quality engineer at Ford Motor Company's Chicago Assembly Plant, filed an 11-count lawsuit on March 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Lynn v. Ford Motor Company, Case No. 1:26-cv-03184), alleging that the company's human resources apparatus did not merely fail her — it worked against her.
The case has not been decided, and the allegations have not been proven in court. Ford has not yet filed a response. But the picture painted in the filing is one that HR leaders will want to sit with.
According to the lawsuit, Lynn reported unwelcome sexual advances from Quality Manager Sunil Archante to her direct supervisor, Process Engineering Manager Domanique Rawls, in December 2024. Rawls allegedly laughed it off. Lynn escalated to Final Area Manager Tracy Carter. He allegedly did the same.
Then, the filing alleges, Rawls began directing personal and romantic attention toward Lynn — asking her to watch her young son, accompany her to sign real estate documents, and sharing unsolicited personal messages. Lynn says she made clear she was not interested. What followed, according to the lawsuit, was a swift shift in how she was treated at work: a contradictory performance review, sabotage of a Kaizen project she was leading,...
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