Case: Individual Employment Rights/Retaliation (W.D.N.C.)

Accordius Health LLC must face the North Carolina Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act claim of a former employee who was fired after she was injured on the job and filed a workers’ compensation claim, even though the company argues a release that she signed nine months after she was terminated bars her REDA claim. The former employee contends the release is limited in scope to workers’ compensation claims related to her injury and doesn’t apply to her alleged retaliatory firing under REDA. The court finds that the release she signed as part of her workers’ compensation settlement didn’t contain broad language ...