Former L3Harris Employee Can Proceed With Retaliation Claims

A former L3Harris Technologies Inc. employee can continue with claims that the company unlawfully fired him in retaliation for calling attention to another employee’s potentially dangerous conduct, a federal district court said.

Ryan B. Johnsen, who worked for the company between 2004 and 2022, adequately alleged that this termination violated both the National Defense Authorization Act and the False Claims Act, Senior Judge Roy B. Dalton Jr. of the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida said in an order denying L3’s motion to dismiss.

Johnsen worked as an operations manager at an L3 weather center as part ...