Table 3 compares the fully allocated costs of providing in-house Janitorial services at a 10,000 square feet county government facility with the costs that will actually be avoided if the county decides to contract out.
The EEOC recently announced three significant settlements with employers concerning claims of retaliation: $130,000 in a case relating to disability discrimination retaliation, $85,000 in a sex harassment retaliation case; and $77,500 to settle another disability harassment retaliation lawsuit.
Rash of significant settlements signals EEOC means business about retaliation. We have been keeping our readers posted on the rapidly evolving developments concerning the EEOCâs agenda in 2013 and beyond. As we noted in past postings, the EEOC promised in its Strategic Enforcement Plan (âSEPâ) that it would increasingly focus on preventing and, when necessary, litigating retaliation claims.