Huntington Ingalls Industries was hit with an EEOC complaint accusing the military shipbuilding giant of subjecting female workers to a hostile work environment characterized by sexual harassment and retaliation for opposing that behavior.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued on behalf of charging parties Victoria Sellers and Shontell Coleman against Huntington and skilled staffing agency NSC Technologies LLC. Sellers, Coleman, and a class of female workers at Huntington’s shipyard in Mississippi experienced “severe, pervasive, unwanted, humiliating, degrading and offensive sexual conduct, including sexual assault,” based on race, the complaint says.
The unlawful harassment was allegedly perpetrated by a Huntington supervisor ...
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