Claim of policy violation does not protect whistleblower
An employee of a nonprofit pharmacy is not protected by the Florida private sector Whistleblower Act when she claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting an alleged breach of policy by the Pharmacist-in-Charge of the facility in which she worked. A federal District Court in Florida has granted the pharmacy’s motion for summary judgment to dismiss the case. Sophomie Pierre was hired in 2016 by the defendant AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which operates more than 60 retail pharmacies and two central fill pharmacies in the United States. She worked as a pharmacy technician in a central fill pharmacy in Ft. Lauderdale. In 2018, she filed an email setting forth her “concerns and complaints”...
The full text of this article is available to paid subscribers only. Login or subscribe to read more