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Nonprofit defeats retaliation claim on summary judgment

Nonprofit defeats retaliation claim on summary judgment

Nonprofit defeats retaliation claim on summary judgment

A assistant to the chief financial officer of a nonprofit organization who was passed over for promotion to the CFO position and locked out of her computer access while out on medical leave has lost a claim for retaliation under the Family and Medical Leave Act. A federal District Court in Pennsylvania has held that she showed a prima facie case of retaliation but failed to show that the agency’s purported non-discriminatory reasons for its actions were merely pretextual. Kelly Gillis was hired as the controller for Lycoming-Clinton Counties Commission for Community Action in 2012. She was regularly given excellent reviews and was promoted to assistant to the CFO in 2016. She claimed that...

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