employment-discrimination

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Question 1 Petitioner, Patricia G. Fritz was terminated from her employment as first female Chief Deputy in the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office on October 25, 2018, via media/television coverage for the charge of Harassment-subject other to physical contact. Petitioner filed appeal and Summary Appeal Order of Court entered by the Honorable Richard E. McCormick, Jr., Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas on August 22, 2019, found Chief Deputy Sheriff Fritz “not guilty” of the charge of harassment-subject other to physical contact. When Petitioner was found not guilty, Attorney Vicki K. Horne, requested immediate reinstatement on at least three separate letters to the Westmoreland County Commissioners. That correspondence was completely ignored. The Charge of harassment-subject to physical contact of NOT GUILTY was expunged from the records. Sworn testimony and documentation prove that Chief Fritz did not engage in the additional charges that the Commissioners placed in her last paragraph of her termination letter that was received after the fact of termination. Chief Fritz did not even have hiring/ termination authority under her position as Chief Deputy. This was under Sheriff Held’s authority. Sworn testimony proves that Chief Fritz did not even know the African Americans that she was accused of not hiring/ discriminatory treatment. i Why was the Petitioner not given her position back when she was exonerated and has sworn testimony that has proved that there was no racial discrimination on her part? She was fired wholly on charges of workplace violenee and made whole, then she should have been given her position back. How can elcctcd officials ignore a President Judge Richard McCormick, Court of Common Pleas, findings in this case? Question 2 Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, petitioner was not only harassed but it was a “Severe or pervasive” standard Under Title VII. Supreme Court determines if there is a severe or persuasive standard Under Title VII. Westmoreland County Commissioners notified Tribune Review Newspaper and Media outlets, of Channel, 2, 4, 6 and 11, of issues against Petitioner, Chief Patricia Fritz. Petitioner, Chief Fritz was in over seventy (70) articles in the newspaper and mostly front-page coverage disparaging her which constitutes a severe or pervasive standard of discrimination under Article VII. After all the media/television exposure, public humiliation to Petitioner, Chief Patricia Fritz was not able to seek employment elsewhere. Petitioner has the newspaper articles if the Honorable Court would like to see to collaborate the issue of “severe and pervasive” standard of treatment. During Sworn testimony, Commissioner Kopas was asked why he contacted the media each time due to it being a personnel issue and he didn’t have a response. Media knowledge and discrimination was solely at the discretion of the Commissioner’s contact. For ten months this went on and it was a “severe or pervasive” standard of harassment under Title VII. It was not only severe and pervasive, but it was harassment at its highest caliber. They set out to harm Petitioner personally and should be held accountable under Section 1983 as a matter of law. Question 3 Chief Patricia Fritz was hired by Sheriff Jonathan Held, as the first female Chief Deputy in the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office on May 5, 2014. Sheriff Held guidelines fall under Pennsylvania General Assembly Title 16, Chapter 137, Act 1620 of the County Code. Sheriff Held is responsible for hiring and termination of his employees under the County Code. Chief Patricia Fritz was sworn into Office as the first Female Chief Deputy on May 4, 2014. After the meeting with Chief Fritz and between Union President, August 8, 2018, Steve Felder, was suspended by Sheriff Held for insubordination, Sheriff Held did not suspend Chief Fritz as he was privy to the meeting, and he knew that Chief Fritz did not break any guidelines regardin