{"id":395,"date":"2017-06-29T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-06-29T20:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:53:41","slug":"college-politics-lead-to-wrongful-termination-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"College Politics Lead to Wrongful Termination Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_398\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/College3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"size-full wp-image-398  \" title=\"Dartmouth College Campus School, by pixabay user tpsdave, licensed by Creative Commons.\" alt=\"Dartmouth College Campus School, by pixabay user tpsdave, licensed by Creative Commons.\" src=\"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/College3.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Administrators Get Schooled<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three separate agreements were recently finalized in an ongoing lawsuit against College of DuPage, one of the college\u2019s board representatives, and the former interim President of the college. Following the September 2015 termination of two administrators at the college, the wrongful termination lawsuit was filed.<!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>The two administrators turned plaintiffs, Thomas Glaser and Lynn Sapyta, claim that their terminations were a result of their outward and evident opposition to Chairwoman Kathy Hamilton\u2019s promotion of three College of DuPage board candidates. In the eyes of Glaser and Sapyta, they were exercising their Constitutional right to speak freely, however, Hamilton perceived their efforts as a direct betrayal and a threat to her overall goal for the board.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs argue that their protests of the three candidates angered Hamilton and caused the Chairwoman to retaliate against them. As Chairwoman and leader of the board of seven members, Hamilton used her power to implement a policy that would force the interim President of the college, Joseph Collins, to fire both Glaser and Sapyta. The reason for termination focused on the notion that the two administrators\u2019 campaign against the candidates threatened the \u201cfinancial integrity\u201d of College of DuPage.<\/p>\n<p>The interim President\u2019s action, under the direction of the board Chairwoman, reserved their new titles as defendants in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/news\/20170623\/college-of-dupage-wrongful-termination-lawsuit-ends-in-3-separate-deals\">lawsuit<\/a>. While a settlement was decided, the specific details of two of the three agreements remain relatively confidential. In particular, the settlements with Hamilton and Collins are not disclosed to the public. The third agreement, concerning College of DuPage\u2019s involvement, resulted in the college maintaining innocence and deflecting all responsibility. College of DuPage is not required to pay any form of monetary compensation to Glaser or Sapyta. The two plaintiffs must waive any accusations against the college and dismiss the lawsuit. Despite the seemingly amenable resolution between both parties, Glaser and Sapyta will receive some form of adequate compensation for their loss of wages and benefits, among other damages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three separate agreements were recently finalized in an ongoing lawsuit against College of DuPage, one of the college\u2019s board representatives, and the former interim President of the college. Following the September 2015 termination of two administrators at the college, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/?p=395\">Read More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,72,68,71,69,70],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialmedia","tag-college-of-dupage","tag-constitutional-right","tag-education","tag-loss-of-wages","tag-wrongful-termination","tag-wrongful-termination-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalmarketing.lawyer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}