CASE C

The Administrative Judge issued the following relief: The Agency is ordered to: 1. Within 60 days of its Final Agency Decision, the Agency shall pay Complainant non-pecuniary compensatory damages in the amount of $187,500; 2. Within 60 days of its final agency decision, the agency shall pay the complainant’s costs in the amount of $5,408. In 60 days of its Final Agency Decision, the agency shall provide a minimum of 2 hours of live training to be provided to managerial/supervisory members at the VAMC Center in Tuscaloosa addressing reprisal and sex-based discrimination; 4. The Agency shall take appropriate preventive steps to ensure that Complainant is not retaliated against based on this EEO complaint and that no employee is subjected to retaliation, and to ensure that appropriate steps are taken immediately after Agency management is notified of any such retaliation allegation; and 5. Within 60 days of its Final Agency Decision, for the benefit of its employees, the Agency shall post copies of the Notice to Employees attached to this order, after being signed by the Agency’s duly authorized representative, in conspicuous places for sixty (60) consecutive days in its Tuscaloosa VAMC facilities, including all places where notices to employees are customarily posted; the Agency shall take steps to ensure that said Notices are not altered, defaced, or covered.