Consumer Law
A Former Employee Accuses a Luxury Car Dealership of Firing Him for Warning Co-workers About a Coronavirus Outbreak
When a worker at a high-end car dealership in Austin, Texas, learned one of his colleagues had tested positive for COVID-19, he did what the company would not: tell others. He was fired within the hour, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Department of Labor, management telling him that “his only job was to fix cars.”
In the lawsuit, filed this month in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, the department says the whistleblower is due back pay and punitive damages, arguing that his only offense was warning others about a threat to their health at Hi Tech Motorcars in Austin, Texas — which is no crime at all.
