EEOC SETTLES SEXUAL HARASSMENT AGAINST BLACKWATER
The EEOC filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Blackwater Protection & Detective Agency, LLC. The complaint described how the owner, Asdel Vazquez, continuously targeted a female employee with brazen sexual comments and suggestions that the two engage in sexual acts. Vazquez also pet the employee’s hair while she worked and called her after work hours when she was at home. After the female employee rejected Vazquez’s sexual advances and told Mr. Vazquez that she wanted to “keep things professional”, she was fired.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
