Its own policy told staff to report harassment to a manager. The EEOC says managers looked away
A federal agency is suing airline caterer Gate Gourmet, alleging it subjected a worker to sexual harassment and ignored her complaints.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed the lawsuit in federal court in Colorado on August 28, 2026. It accuses Gate Gourmet of creating a hostile work environment - a workplace made abusive by harassment the employer fails to stop - for a female employee, then doing nothing when she raised it.
The company hired the woman in October 2022 to load catering onto trucks and deliver it to planes near Denver International Airport, according to the complaint. New drivers usually learn the job from an experienced mentor. The filing says no one would train her, and that one male driver told her he would not because “[she is] a woman [she] can’t drive the truck.”
The mentor she was eventually given made sexual comments about her body nearly every day, the EEOC alleges. The complaint also alleges he made a comment about her ethnicity, telling her - she is Filipino - that he wanted to “try” an Asian.
After a safety test found she could not reach a control button on the truck - she is about 4 feet 11 inches tall - the company moved her to a helper role, the filing says. The comments did not stop.
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