Former employee sues Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin after her dismissal
Kayleen Fulton is contesting her dismissal before the American courts and accuses the Ethereum Foundation of discrimination and retaliation.
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From Colorado, she led the Protocol Support team and hosted the All Core Developers meetings, where developers discuss developments in the Ethereum protocol. According to her complaint, she informed management in writing of her diagnosis of ovarian cancer on March 24. The next day, she and Trent Van Epps sent a letter supporting the general direction of the Mandate, but contesting the obligation to adhere to it under penalty of seeing their departure treated as a resignation.
According to Kayleen Fulton, Bastian Aue, a manager, announced their dismissal to them thirty minutes apart, without giving them the reason. She also contests the conditions of her departure. According to the complaint, the agreement offered him either a payment of approximately $25,680 or approaches to EthStaker to try to obtain a one-year commitment from him, without guarantee that this organization would accept. She claims to have signed the agreement before notifying its revocation on April 17.
According to the complaint, Bastian Aue explained to employees that the passage should be understood figuratively. The text was nevertheless preserved in the form of an illustration on page 11 of the final version of the Mandate.
Kayleen Fulton claims that management asked employees to confirm their adherence to the document, otherwise it would consider them to have resigned. Along with Trent Van Epps, she forwarded a letter contesting this requirement, signed by 53 members of the Protocol Department. According to the complaint, the two organizers were fired on April 6, while the other signatories remained in their positions at that time.
The complaint thus puts forward two possible reasons for reprisals, linked to the internal protest and the announcement of the illness. The link between these events and the dismissal decision remains to be established. But it's starting to do a lot on the Foundation side.
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