A Commonwealth Court judge has thrown out a whistleblower suit against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, finding the plaintiff didn’t prove the commission ran afoul of any law or that his complaints of financial mismanagement to his bosses were the cause of his termination.
In Bailets v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Senior Judge Rochelle S. Friedman, hearing the case in her original jurisdiction, granted the commission’s motion for summary judgment. She found plaintiff Ralph M. Bailets’ complaints to the commission’s chief financial officer before he became CFO were not complaints to an “employer,” that the substance of the complaints to another commission official did not constitute any wrongdoing on the part of the commission and that Bailets’ subsequent termination was a legitimate part of the commission’s efforts to reduce expenses.
