Spotify sued for gender discrimination and unequal pay by former employee
Spotify is being sued for gender discrimination by a former employee who alleges that the company orchestrated secret "boys' trips" to concerts, often involving drug use, and regularly passed over women for promotion. According to a report by Variety, sales executive Hong Perez filed the lawsuit against the company and her former boss Brian Berner, on Tuesday in the New York Supreme Court. In the lawsuit, Perez lays out a case against the company that she claims operated under a “double standard,” treating its female employees worse than their male counterparts.
Perez alleges that Berner took men-only groups to Sundance Film Festival in 2016 and 2017, which were internally referred to as “boys’ trips.” She claimed that though employees of the company talked about drug use on the trips and one employee was involved in a physical altercation, the company took no action to discipline those involved.
