An Air India flight attendant has taken a claim of years-long sexual harassment to the very top.
The FA says she has endured six years of harassment and discrimination by a senior airline official, and after inaction by airline management wrote to the aviation minister and Indian Prime Minister.
The aviation minister Suresh Prabhu responded by ordering Air India ‘to immediately address this issue.’
In the complaint she said ‘the senior executive over the last six years has sexually harassed, tortured and discriminated against me…. this senior executive is a predator.’
"He has insulted and denied me positions and privileges after I rejected his advances… he has made my life a misery at work and continues to do so."
She said her complaint to AI management was brushed aside without any action taken.
"I used the internal processes because I did not want to attract publicity or attention… but six years of torture and nine months of tortuous delay and cover-ups have left me frustrated."
"Other women have been through this with the same senior executive."
The flight attendant cited comments from the female chair of the committee which investigated the complaint, who said: "You know how he talks. He has even flirted with me like this so many times."
The crew member called the executive’s behaviour as bad as disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
