Case: Discrimination/Damages (E.D. Va.)

PhyAmerica Government Services must pay over $114,000 in back pay and benefits, as well as $50,000 emotional distress damages and post-judgment interest to a female art therapist that it employed to work at the Womak Army Medical Center and who complained to PhyAmerica of a retaliatory hostile work environment after she reported sexual harassment at Womak. PhyAmerica told her not to “make any trouble” if she wanted to keep her job, she made diligent, though unsuccessful, efforts to find a new job, and the harassment caused her such distress that she has constant nightmares, depression, and extreme anxiety that have ...