Last week, a U.S. Department of Labor administrative law judge ruled that Atlantic Coast Airlines must compensate a former employee after she was fired for blowing the whistle on alleged fraud.
The employee, former labor relations manager Stacey Platone, had alleged that some members of the pilots' union were abusing "flight loss pay," wherein pilots called away from flight duty for official business are still compensated.
According to the judge, whether Platone's accusations were accurate is irrelevant. "All that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires is that [Platone] reasonably believed that [ACA] engaged in such conduct," wrote the judge.
Platone indicated she does not seek reinstatement with ACA, but the airline will be ordered to compensate her back pay, interest and expenses.
The judge's decision is available above, right.
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