In the weeks that followed, Hammoud allegedly put Curran on a performance improvement plan based on what Curran’s lawyers say were “false” reasons. During this “reset plan,” Curran claims Hammoud made comments about how much she was or wasn’t smiling. Curran’s lawyers note in the complaint that Hammoud’s comments were “something that other Rivian directors uniformly agreed was not normal.”
In September 2023, Curran was called into a meeting with Hammoud and an HR rep and was fired for failing to make “sufficient improvements during the ‘reset plan’,” according to the complaint.
This was not the first time Hammoud had been accused of harassing employees.