The West Mifflin Area School District has paid a $65,000 settlement to end a federal court case filed by former Director of Security Joseph Gajdos.
Mr. Gajdos was laid off by the school board in June along with 13 other employees and later filed suit in U.S. District Court maintaining that his termination violated his five-year employment contract with the district. The suit said his contract was supposed to run from Dec. 10, 2007 to Dec. 9, 2012. His annual salary was $53,430.
The school board voted 5-4 on Feb. 17 to approve the settlement. The district released the financial terms today in response to a Right To Know request filed by the Post-Gazette.
According to the agreement the district's insurance carrier was to pay Mr. Gajdos $43,075 and his attorney Joseph Chivers $21,925. In return, Mr. Gajdos agreed to drop all claims against the district and to not seek to be reinstatement with the district. He also agreed that he will not discuss or reveal the terms of the agreement.
By Mary Niederberger, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette