“Malicious” Netflix Hit With Sexual Harassment, Retaliation Suit Over Vaccine Mandates By Streamer’s Ex-Risk Management Director

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Netflix’s former Senior manager of Risk Management is taking the streamer to court on a plethora of claims from sexual harassment to discrimination to retaliatory termination and now shuttered Covid vaccine mandates. “Combs alleges that the real reason for her termination was retaliation for her outspokenness and multiple complaints regarding the oppressive sexually driven ‘curiosity’ culture of Netflix,” alleges the 10-claims complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court today by Jessica Combs. “Her willingness to speak up marked her as an employee not acting in the best interest of Netflix; an employee that was not a good team player nor a great fit,” the jury trial seeking document adds of Combs, who was at the streamer from May 2017 to December 2021.

Citing the “lack of care” by Netflix HR over herself and a fellow female employee being “emotionally scarred” from incident that Combs says was “a direct result of the culture of sexuality promoted” by the Reed Hastings co-founded streamer, the 28-page filing is seeking a variety of unspecified damages for the now Nashville, Tennessee-based ex-executive.

Scorning “drag queen dancing sexually” in the main Netflix LA HQ cafeteria during PRIDE month, and the apparent routineness of “drinking alcohol while working” at the company, the complaint adds: Combs alleges that this sexually oriented culture at Netflix caters to male predators.” For all that, and clearly that’s a lot, those allegations are not actually the core of Combs’ complaint.

The by-product of Covid-19 is what Combs sought and received a Right to Sue notice from the California Civil Rights department back in August 2023.