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.
1 EEOC reached a $57,500 settlement with Creative Networks in its ADA lawsuit alleging that defendant failed to accommodate its deaf and hard of hearing employees by refusing to pay more than $200 for sign language interpreter services during the company's mandatory 24-hour pre-employment orientation and training program. EEOC reached a $180,000 settlement with Walgreens in its ADA lawsuit alleging that defendant fired an employee with Type II diabetes because of her disability after she ate a $1.39 bag of chips during a hypoglycemic attack in order to stabilize her blood sugar level.