Charlie Rose has reached a settlement with three former CBS employees who sued him in 2018 for sexual harassment.

The accusers, Katherine Brooks Harris, Chelsea Wei and Sydney McNeal, alleged that Rose touched them on their thighs, kissed their cheeks and made numerous inappropriate sexual remarks.

Rose was fired from his job as a co-host of “CBS This Morning” in November 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, when the Washington Post reported on harassment allegations from eight women. Bloomberg TV and PBS also canceled his long-running interview show, “Charlie Rose,” which was produced by Rose’s company.

Rose publicly apologized for his “inappropriate behavior,” saying he had behaved “insensitively.”

The Post followed up in May 2018, citing 27 complaints stretching back to the 1980s. The three plaintiffs were included in that report, and filed suit shortly thereafter.

They settled with CBS in December 2018, but the case against Rose has lingered in New...