Post by Logan on Jan 9, 2017 2:24:03 GMT -6
A former law enforcement agent who successfully challenged her firing by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Lynchburg is in line to receive nearly $400,000 in compensation from the state.
Anastasia Wootten, the subject of a 2013 termination action, is entitled to back pay and benefits, and interest, of $237,236, according to a Dec. 30 ruling in an ongoing employee-management dispute at the DMV.
A federal jury ruled in October that Wootten had been terminated without just cause and awarded her the back pay, after which Wootten asked for reinstatement. District Judge Norman Moon declined but instead gave Wootten an additional sum of “front pay.” The amount was set at $161,947, or two and a half times her 2012 pay and benefit rate, according to last week’s ruling.
Moon’s decision said Wootten and agency leadership could never again work together. She accused “the entire DMV chain of command of gross malfeasance and abuse of power” but did not substantiate her allegations, which were dismissed, Moon wrote. DMV officials have publicly and strongly condemned Wootten as unfit to for law enforcement work.
Read more: www.newsadvance.com/work_it_lynchburg/news/ex-dmv-employee-awarded-nearly-after-wrongful-firing/article_8129f3d7-4be0-5fcd-a06c-1ed7118310d9.html
Anastasia Wootten, the subject of a 2013 termination action, is entitled to back pay and benefits, and interest, of $237,236, according to a Dec. 30 ruling in an ongoing employee-management dispute at the DMV.
A federal jury ruled in October that Wootten had been terminated without just cause and awarded her the back pay, after which Wootten asked for reinstatement. District Judge Norman Moon declined but instead gave Wootten an additional sum of “front pay.” The amount was set at $161,947, or two and a half times her 2012 pay and benefit rate, according to last week’s ruling.
Moon’s decision said Wootten and agency leadership could never again work together. She accused “the entire DMV chain of command of gross malfeasance and abuse of power” but did not substantiate her allegations, which were dismissed, Moon wrote. DMV officials have publicly and strongly condemned Wootten as unfit to for law enforcement work.
Read more: www.newsadvance.com/work_it_lynchburg/news/ex-dmv-employee-awarded-nearly-after-wrongful-firing/article_8129f3d7-4be0-5fcd-a06c-1ed7118310d9.html