ICYMI: Metro Sued for $200K Over Unwanted Hugs: Report

Editor's note: This article was originally posted earlier this week.

WASHINGTON, DC — As if there weren't enough things going wrong for Metro, now WMATA has an embarrassing sexual harassment lawsuit on its hands -- and it's a doozy.

WTOP is reporting that a Metro employee is suing the agency for at least $200,000 after she says a supervisor repeatedly tried to get her to hug him, and after she reported the behavior to her bosses, the agency retaliated against her.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court and claims the woman first rejected the supervisor's request for a hug in December 2013, telling him she was married to another Metro employee named Antawan, but the supervisor repeatedly dismissed her concerns, even trying to hug her after a funeral for another bus operator and telling her to "hurry up and give me a hug before Antawan comes over here," the WTOP report states, quoting from the lawsuit.

The woman claims that Dana Baker, Metro's head of bus transportation, reassigned the supervisor and did not give the woman the expected choice of job assignment, which she interpreted as retaliation, according to the report.

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