DETROIT – After more than two years of legal battle. Ford Motor Co. has settled a sex harassment lawsuit brought by a factor work at Ford’s Deaborn plant. The settlement amount is subject to confidentiality, as is typical for sex harassment settlements.

The worker alleging sexual harassment, Andrea Busha, filed a lawsuit for retaliation and sexually hostile work environment in June of 2019. She alleged the hostile work environment led to intensive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Busha had happily worked at Ford until a team leader targeted her with constant “sexual assaults and crude and disgusting statements and propositions.” Co-workers corroborated Busha’s allegations.

The lawsuit alleged the sexual harassment included:

• Grabbing Busha’s buttocks, pressing his penis firmly against her buttocks, spanking her buttocks with a metal scuff plate and grabbing her arm and attempting to make Busha feel his penis
• Telling Busha how soft she is and that she should let him have her
• Retaliating against her for rejecting his crude and vulgar behavior by refusing to let her leave the assembly line to go to the restroom, causing a kidney infection, inciting coworkers against her, manipulating management to assign Busha to undesirable work assignments, in violation of the union contract and safety regulations
• Falsely claiming that Busha sent him naked pictures

When Busha complained of the harassment, Ford suspended her without pay and then suggested Busha was welcoming and encouraging the behavior.

Commenting on the settlement, attorney James Fett said: