Type of Relief Requested. Please check one or both of the types of relief that you are seeking: [ ] Cash Award: Please check this box if you are interested in a cash award to make up for some of the pain and suffering and/or emotional distress allegedly suffered as a result of Defendants’ refusal to transfer female COs from WHV to other prisons on the same transfer terms that were applied to male COs. Defendants have agreed to provide $750,000 to be distributed amongst Charging Parties and eligible claimants. The amount of money that an individual eligible claimant receives will depend on the number of Charging Parties accepting their service awards; the number of claimants; and the duration of time the individual claimant worked at WHV, was eligible to transfer, wanted to transfer, and was harmed by her inability to transfer due to the transfer freeze. [ ] Consideration for Priority Transfer: Please check this box if you are currently working as a CO at WHV and you are interested in being considered for priority transfer to another MDOC facility. Checking this box merely indicates your interest in being considered for transfer and does not mean that you will necessarily be permitted to transfer. Also, you will not have to accept a priority transfer if one is offered to you. Defendants have agreed to allow up to 15 eligible claimants who currently work as COs at WHV to transfer out of WHV to another MDOC facility. Eligible claimants will be considered for priority transfer only if they meet the same conditions required for all other transfer applicants. Preference for the 15 priority transfers will be given to Charging Parties, in order of number of continuous service hours, and then to non-Charging Parties, in order of number of continuous service hours.
