The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit alleging a female supervisor at a time-share resort sexually harassed a male subordinate and that the employer failed to take prompt action after the employee complained.

The EEOC says a female supervisor subjected a male salesperson to an escalating pattern of verbal and physical sexual harassment over a 14-month period at Festiva Resorts' location in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.

The agency says that the harassment slowed when the salesperson was moved to another department within the resort, but the harassment resumed at the new location 2 months later, when Festiva Resorts transferred the female supervisor to the same department. The man says he again complained to the employer. He eventually quit. The EEOC says that the employer failed to take prompt remedial action designed to stop the harassment, as required by federal law.

The federal agency seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the employee.