YOUNGSTOWN - The Trumbull County Commissioners have settled another lawsuit from one of their employees.

According to federal court records, the commissioners and their clerk Paula Vivoda-Klotz notified U.S. District Court Judge Benita Pearson that both sides reached a joint settlement of a civil lawsuit filed in June of last year. As a result, Judge Pearson dismissed the case.

Vivoda-Klotz alleged that she has been the victim of harassment and retaliation for seeking a reduced work schedule due to stress and other claimed disabilities.

Commissioners admitted in an answer to her complaint that Vivoda-Klotz was disciplined for having failed to file boxes worth of documents that pre-existed her leave by many months, if not years, adding that her condition did not qualify as “disabled” under state or federal definitions.

Details of the settlement were not immediately disclosed in the court filing.

Both sides have until September 8 to submit a proposed order to the judge for final approval.