State Agency Whistleblower Gets Job Back

[Judi Lynn]

State Agency Whistleblower Gets Job Back

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 7, 2006
Filed at 2:49 p.m. ET

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A whistleblower who complained about how computer software contracts were handled in the Department of State must be given his job back and the state must pay his legal fees, a judge ruled.

Christopher Van Hine can return to his job directing the department's information management systems and may also be entitled to damages for how he was treated, Senior Judge Barry F. Feudale said in a ruling Wednesday.

Van Hine suffered discrimination and retaliation ''solely because of his good-faith report of wrongdoing and waste to his superiors and an appropriate authority,'' Feudale wrote.

Van Hine sued the department, former Secretary of State C. Michael Weaver, and one of his aides over being stripped of his duties in 2002 after complaining about the software contracts to a supervisor.
(snip/...)

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Whistleblower-Reinstated.html?_r=1&oref=slogin