Indeed Worker’s Rape-Based Harassment Suit Sent for Arbitration

A female Indeed Inc. account executive who says she was raped two weeks into her career and that the company turned a blind eye to her complaints about that and other workplace harassment must take her case to arbitration, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.

Taylor Gilbert’s May 2018 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York also accuses the online job search engine of subjecting female sales employees to a “misogynistic culture” in which they are sexual prey for male managers who favor women who accede to their demands.

Judge Lewis J. Liman became ...