A veteran executive director of a YWCA suffering from stress and anxiety because of her organization’s financial condition and her continuing disputes with the CFO is an at-will employee and may be fired while on medical leave, a Court of Appeals in Washington has affirmed. Monica Walters had been executive director since 1996 when she was terminated in February of 2009. She had historically been considered a dedicated, hard-working, loyal and committed employee, but difficult economic times had increased pressure upon her. In March, 2008, she hired Dinette Hill as a new finance director. They had significant disagreements about how to handle the financial situation, which, in Hill’s...