La Simonds, devenue la Eljer Manufacturing Inc. aux États-Unis, dut en l'occurence rembourser avec les intérêts, à ses ex-employés, la somme de 10 millions de dollars, après l'avoir prélevée injustement dans les caisses de retraite en 1986.
Simonds, which became Eljer Manufacturing Inc. in the United States, had to pay back to its former employees a sum of $10 million, with interest, after having unfairly taken that money from the pension plans, in 1986.