The former finance director of an organization that oversees government training programs was fired for reasons other than blowing the whistle on the chief executive, the Snohomish County Workforce Development Council said Thursday in a statement.
Deborah Anderson of Edmonds filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle contending she was fired in August in retaliation.
In a statement, the organization said Anderson was fired “at the conclusion of a detailed third-party investigation of complaints regarding several areas for which Ms. Anderson was responsible.”
Anderson is seeking lost wages and other damages, as well as reinstatement.
She claimed the firing was retaliatory because Anderson went to a board of directors member with information about an inflated budget being sought by the chief executive officer.
The development council is a taxpayer-funded corporation that oversees the WorkForce offices in Everett and Lynnwood. Those offices provide services to the unemployed and to companies looking for workers.
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