Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and contractor NSC Technologies - HQ'd in Atlanta but with an office in Mobile, Ala. - ignored women on a cleaning crew who claimed a supervisor at the Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard masturbated in front of them, coerced one of them to have sex, groped and made crude, sexually explicit comments, a lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alabama, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says. The lawsuit accuses HII and NSC of violating the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. The EEOC notified both companies of the violations in May 2021. The women worked for NSC on the cleaning crew of a Coast Guard ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula where they were harassed by HII supervisor Patrick Dingle. The EEOC was unable to reach an acceptable agreement with the companies, and is asking District Judge Kristi K. DuBose to order the companies and their employees to stop sexual harassment and retaliation, and adopt policies and training programs to prevent it in the future. The EEOC is also asking for punitive damages. The suit does not indicate how many women were harassed, but does detail alleged harassment against two specific women and others on the cleaning crew of the ship at Ingalls. (Source: Sun Herald 10/04/21)
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