EEOC Sues Moore Comfort Home Care, LLC for Sexual Harassment

NORFOLK, Va. – Moore Comfort Home Care, LLC, a Norfolk-area provider of private home health care services, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.

According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, one of the company’s owners subjected at least three female employees to sexual harassment between 2021 and 2023, making unwanted sexually suggestive comments, engaging in unwanted sexual touching, and making unwanted sexual advances. The suit said that the female employees resisted the owner’s advances and at least two employees complained about the harassment to another owner of the company and at least one was forced to resign because of the intolerable working conditions.

“Ensuring workplaces are free from sexual harassment remains a top priority for the EEOC,” said Melinda C. Dugas, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Charlotte District. “No employee should be forced to choose between enduring harassment or giving up their job. The EEOC is committed to standing with workers and enforcing the protections guaranteed by Title VII.”

Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Moore Comfort Home Care, LLC, Civil Action No.: 2:25-cv-00591) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its voluntary conciliation process.

For more information on sexual harassment, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment.

For more information on sex-based discrimination, please visit https://www.eeoc.gov/sex-based-discrimination.

The Charlotte District has jurisdiction over North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

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