Maine to pay $65K to worker demoted after testifying about BPA
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — The state has agreed to pay $65,000 to a state employee who claimed she was demoted last year after testifying before a legislative committee during her vacation about the dangers of the chemical bisphenol-A.
In the settlement signed April 19 between the state and Andrea Lani, the state admits no wrongdoing. The agreement, however, requires that the state provide training to supervisors within the Maine Department of Environmental Protection about the state law that prohibits retaliation against state employees who provide testimony to the Legislature.
Lani, a Whitefield resident, filed a lawsuit in October in Bangor District Court alleging she was the victim of retaliation by DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho and Ronald Dyer, director of the DEP’s bureau of remediation and waste management. The lawsuit was dismissed by Lani after the settlement.
Lani had worked for the DEP since 1999 and oversaw the program that educated the public about toxic substances in plastic and their impact on children, called the Safer Chemicals in Children’s Products program.
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Sorry LePage - you cannot silence the truth.
yup
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just guessing.
These commissioners should be happy one of their workers is giving information about the latest research into these chemicals.
I could not open the article, tho.
