The state Superior Court has rejected the wrongful termination appeal of a woman who was fired from her position as a licensed professional counselor at a Pennsylvania women’s drug and alcohol abuse recovery center, reasoning that the termination for not including a potential female patient who was also a registered sex offender in a program that included past female sex-abuse victims did not violate public policy.
Irini H. Mikhail had argued that when the Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery (POWER) fired her, the organization violated two pronouncements of public policy that LPCs like herself must protect group members from harm and that LPCs may not delegate their professional responsibilities.
