Charlotte Newman, a Black manager at Amazon.com, filed a lawsuit Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia accusing Amazon of racial discrimination. Her complaint alleges that Amazon hires Black people for lower positions, despite their qualifications, and that the company promotes Black people at lower rates than white workers.

Newman claims that she was hired in 2017 as a Public Policy Manager, despite the fact that she applied for and was qualified for a higher-level position. She said that she was then assigned to and completing the work of the higher-level position while still being paid at the lower level. She also alleged that she was paid significantly less than her white coworkers.

The complaint alleges that Newman’s colleagues also observed a “consistent practice of paying Black employees less than similarly situated white employees,” as well as an almost complete lack of Black representation in the upper levels of leadership. Newman alleged that she and other Black women at Amazon repeatedly experienced harassment, including having their coworkers touch their hair without consent. She claimed that a coworker once even said she looked “like a gorilla” in a jacket.

According to the complaint, “Amazon’s discriminatory hiring, compensation, and promotion practices in corporate jobs reflect larger systemic racial and gender discrimination in the country.”

In addition to filing the complaint, Newman will file a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She is seeking monetary damages for the alleged discrimination.