Dispatcher fired over Trump wants $250,000 settlement

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 7:51 pm, Tuesday, March 21, 2017


LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher who says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump's travel ban wants a six-figure settlement.

UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow told The La Crosse Tribune(http://bit.ly/2mN3G7P ) that Kimberly Dearman wants a $250,000 settlement. Her attorney, Lee Fehr, told the newspaper that she's winning in the court of public opinion. Gow says the school won't pay.

Dearman was fired earlier this month for using unbecoming and threatening language with an Asian trainee. According to investigators, she told the trainee the travel ban would protect the U.S. and immigrants should go home.

Gow said Dearman wasn't fired for her opinions, even though he sent a university-wide email in January rebuking the ban. Gow offered Dearman her job back last week because she didn't get a hearing.

Read more: Link to source

---

(Short article, no more at link.)

[center]

Kimberly Dearman

[pfitz59]

1. Fuck her....racist and disparagaing remarks are just cause

even in Union Contracts.... nothing, plus charge her court costs...

[yeoman6987]

7. Weirdly they offered her job back

I wonder if they think they will lose in court.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Wisconsin Is At-Will

So, they don't even need a reason to terminate. Seems odd they would offer the job back.

[JudyM]

12. The University must have a non-discrimination policy that is broad enough that it arguably would

cover her actions, so they need to follow their standard internal administrative procedures if they want to be able to get the lawsuit against them dismissed. Or perhaps another policy altogether, like protecting political speech. That's my guess.

[Jonny Appleseed]

2. Hostile work environment

gtfo that's the free market sucker.

[C Moon]

3. :D

[FiveGoodMen]

4. POS!

Fuck her, indeed.

[ProudLib72]

5. They see how Li'l Donnie threatens law suits

They follow in his footsteps with frivolous suits of their own.

[Blue Idaho]

6. How does that go again?

See you in court...

[Vinca]

8. I was ready to support her - free speech and all that - until I read she was training someone.

Sorry, lady. No loot for you.

[Solly Mack]

9. Trainees can always sue the racist trainer for creating a hostile work environment.

Inability to get fair reviews and proper training from the woman because she is a known racist.

So they don't really want to hire the racist back.

She's a legal nightmare and a POS.

[NewRedDawn]

11. Tort reform

These are the fucks that want to deny every one else suing for medical malpractice & support Employers that can fire you at will without protection like their hero's Supreme Court nominee. Hypocrite snowflakes.

[Lucky Luciano]

13. She can fuck right off. nt