FEDS FILE DRYDEN SEX SUIT.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Thursday against a company that provides security for NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. , alleging that a male manager sexually harassed male employees. The complaint alleges that in 2000 a manager for Maryland-based Systems Applications and Technologies Inc. subjected male employees to inappropriate touching and made comments regarding his own sexual escapades. The comments were allegedly made to several male employees of the company, the complaint said. The EEOC's complaint seeks monetary damages for the employees, but an amount was not specified. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, compensatory damages A sum of money awarded in a civil action by a court to indemnify a person for the particular loss, detriment, or injury suffered as a result of the unlawful conduct of another. are capped at $200,000 per victim. ``We want them not to engage in that type of behavior and for them not to take retaliatory action against those making the complaints,'' EEOC EEOC abbr. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC n abbr (US) (= Equal Employment Opportunities Commission) → comisión que investiga discriminación racial o sexual en el empleo trial lawyer Sue Noh said. A representative for Systems Applications & Technologies Inc. declined to comment on the suit. |
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