Lone Star Ambulance, a San Antonio critical care transportation company, has agreed to pay $90,000 in damages and furnish other relief in order to settle a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, two female employees were subjected to repeated sexual harassment by persons in executive management and supervisory positions for the company. The allegations included not only verbal sexual harassment but also physical acts such as unwanted sexual touching and forced submission to sex as a condition of employment. According to the EEOC, working conditions became so intolerable that one of the female employees felt she had no other option but to resign. Another female employee was fired shortly after she rejected sexual advances from a supervisor and complained about the sexual harassment, the EEOC charged.
