KCMO City Manager Complaint Trial Starts

We've talked about this one for a couple of years and, apparently, there wasn't a settlement reached.

Here's the crux of the complaint that mostly interests newsies . . . 

"Was Chris Hernandez, a TV news reporter turned communications director for the city, pushed out because he was being asked to go against his principles and lie to the public? Or did he lose his job because he wasn’t meeting the high expectations of a new boss who thought Hernandez wasn’t highlighting the city’s accomplishments enough? 

"Testimony in support of both arguments will try to sway the jury in a trial that began this week in the employment discrimination lawsuit that Hernandez filed against the city two years ago. It hinges on a Missouri law that protects whistleblowers, which Hernandez claims to be for challenging what he deemed as dishonesty from the city’s top administrator."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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