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.
Settlement amount averages tend to vary by industry. For example, the classic slip-and-fall situations in retail establishments tend to yield averages of just $2,000. On the other hand, settlements of medical malpractice lawsuits averaged more than $300,000 in 2013. It is important to remember, however, that many physician malpractice cases are for wrongful death, which tend to be at the upper end of the settlement spectrum.