concluding that an employee who was terminated after threatening to report what she believed to be patient abuse had fulfilled an important public duty, where various statutes indicated a legislative desire to protect patients from abuse and good faith reports of patient abuse were statutorily protected from retaliation
Summary of this case from Huber v. Dept. of EducationSeptember 25, 1984.
concluding that an employee who was terminated after threatening to report what she believed to be patient abuse had fulfilled an important public duty, where various statutes indicated a legislative desire to protect patients from abuse and good faith reports of patient abuse were statutorily protected from retaliation
Summary of this case from Huber v. Dept. of Educationconcluding that an employee is protected from discharge for good faith reporting of what the employee believes to be patient mistreatment
Summary of this case from Brown v. Board of Educationstating that "victim" in ORS 137.103 was "to be broadly interpreted"
Summary of this case from State v. ZunigaFull title:PETITIONS FOR REVIEW
Court:Oregon Supreme Court
Date published: Sep 25, 1984
Plaintiff contends that she was discharged in retaliation for fulfilling the societal obligation of reporting…
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