Post by Logan on Jun 16, 2016 16:30:29 GMT -6
BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — A judge ordered Bordentown Township to pay $240,800 to a former employee who was fired after filing a lawsuit, according to a report in the Burlington County Times.
Superior Court Judge Aimee Belgard upheld a January arbitration that found that Barbara Woolley-Dillon was "terminated for her whistleblowing activity that she reasonably regarded as violations of law, regulation or public policy," the report said.
Woolley-Dillon had worked as the director of Community Development as well as the zoning officer and planner.
She filed a complaint in November 2010, describing the township's failure to replace an administrative assistant who had left a year prior and its expectation that she would take on that work as "an illegal attempt (by Bordentown) to avoid filling and paying for a position required by law," according to a Times of Trenton article at the time.
Read more: www.nj.com/burlington/index.ssf/2016/06/nj_town_ordered_to_pay_fired_employee_240k.html
Superior Court Judge Aimee Belgard upheld a January arbitration that found that Barbara Woolley-Dillon was "terminated for her whistleblowing activity that she reasonably regarded as violations of law, regulation or public policy," the report said.
Woolley-Dillon had worked as the director of Community Development as well as the zoning officer and planner.
She filed a complaint in November 2010, describing the township's failure to replace an administrative assistant who had left a year prior and its expectation that she would take on that work as "an illegal attempt (by Bordentown) to avoid filling and paying for a position required by law," according to a Times of Trenton article at the time.
Read more: www.nj.com/burlington/index.ssf/2016/06/nj_town_ordered_to_pay_fired_employee_240k.html