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Rivian executives accused of harassment in previously unreported lawsuits
Four employees have sued Rivian in separate lawsuits this year over allegations they were harassed, in some cases by top executives.
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Curran, who worked at the company’s Irvine, California headquarters, alleges that Hammoud confronted her during a March 2023 meeting in “a frothing rage, red-faced with anger, veins on his head, and neck bulging as he berated her” after she had trouble accessing a computer presentation. The chief designer then allegedly started “aggressively carving up” Facciolla’s clay model of one of Rivian’s vehicles in response, making “major changes that are typically made in the early phases” of the car development process. Battery team member Angela Betancourt sued Rivian in federal court in September 2022 after allegedly being “regularly subjected to unwanted sexual advances by several of her male coworkers” at the company’s factory in Illinois.
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