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Mendoza v. ABM Industries, Inc. and ABM Janitorial Services

On April 27, 2010, Linda Miller Savitt and Linda B. Hurevitz received a defense verdict in Maria Mendoza v. ABM Industries, Inc., and ABM Janitorial Services. The plaintiff, the former Regional Director of Human Resources for ABM Janitorial Services - Southwest Region, a subsidiary of ABM Industries, Inc. claimed that she had been wrongfully terminated after reporting payroll irregularities and violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the U.S. Department of Labor. In addition, she claimed she had been subjected to a hostile work environment and retaliation because she was aware of sexual harassment in the workplace and believed that her employer failed to appropriately address her concerns. Finally, plaintiff claimed that she had been misclassified as an exempt employee and should have been entitled to overtime compensation. After twenty days of trial, the jury returned a defense verdict in three hours.