The Regional Transportation District (RTD) is a subdivision of the state of Colorado which runs public transportation in and around Denver. It apparently had been having trouble with one of its employees, one Renita Bell, to the point where she was suspended for five days and asked to sign a work performance promise in order to return.
She refused, did not return to work, and applied for unemployment. She was turned down because the officials of the unemployment agency decided that her refusal to sign and subsequent leaving amounted to insubordination. She sued.
Sounds like one of those cases the right-wing, torch-carrying, mob likes to point to about "stupid lawsuits," right?
Except for one thing: The performance promise she was told to sign
also required Bell to waive her legal rights to appeal RTD's decisions about her or to sue the transportation agency over job issues.That was too much for the Colorado Court of Appeals, which ruled Thursday that employees can't be required to sign away their legal rights in order to keep their jobs. It sent the case back to the unemployment bureau for reconsideration.
Well, good for the court - but what does it say about the state of things when neither her employer nor the unemployment bureau saw anything improper about that provision?
Footnote: Thanks to Alternative Press Review for the tip.
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