A staffing firm and client company will pay $675,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Wednesday.

BJ’s Service Co. Inc., a staffing firm based in New Bedford, Mass., and Atlantic Capes Fisheries Inc., a New Jersey-based shellfish harvester and processor, were accused of not working to end sexual harassment or punish harassers at an Atlantic Capes Fisheries location in Fall River, Mass., according to the commission. The firms also fired two women after they filed charges of discrimination with the EEOC — Mirna Pacaja and Paula Carrillo.

The sexual harassment “was perpetrated by male managers, line supervisors and co-workers, included unwanted touching, solicitations for sex, and crude comments about female workers’ bodies,” according to the EEOC.

Women who worked at Atlantic Capes Fisheries’ Fall River site at any time since January 2013 and who have experienced sexual harassment will be eligible to receive a portion of the settlement, the EEOC reported. The companies will also create and/or revise policies prohibiting sex discrimination and provide training to managers and workers as part of the settlement. The policies and training must be available in both English and Spanish — most of the workers at the Fall River site are Spanish speakers.

“Even in the era of the ‘Me Too,’ movement, many employees, especially low-wage and immigrant workers, fear bringing complaints of sex harassment forward,” said EEOC Senior Trial Attorney Sara Smolik. “The brave four women who filed discrimination charges with the EEOC in this case alerted the agency to widespread sex harassment that was adversely affecting them and many of their female co-workers in the facility.”