Carol St. Pierre alleges she heard the district’s business administrator, Adam Steel, say he wouldn’t hire a woman due to her being pregnant and that he would fire a black employee and would not hire “any gays,” the suit notes. St. Pierre also named two former superintendents, Henry LaBranche and Winfried Feneberg, in her suit.
Steel and LaBranche denied wrongdoing. St. Pierre, who said she quit her HR position for a lower paying job due to a ‘hostile work environment’ wants the court to rule she was “‘wrongfully terminated’ when she resigned because of ‘a hostile and intolerable work environment’ and that the district acted in violation of the state’s ‘Whistle-Blower’ protections,” the story notes.