{"id":8043,"date":"2010-03-10T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2010-03-10T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:54:02","slug":"professor-sues-stillman-college-over-dismissal-for-malicious-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/professor-sues-stillman-college-over-dismissal-for-malicious-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sues Stillman College Over Dismissal for &#8216;Malicious Gossip&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuscaloosa News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20100310\/NEWS\/100309506\/1007\">Ex-Stillman professor sues over dismissal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TUSCALOOSA | A former Stillman College professor has sued the college over his termination two years ago, seeking back pay, punitive damages and his old job.<\/p>\n<p>Ekow Hayford, who taught business at Stillman, filed the civil suit Feb. 15 in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The climate may make it difficult for him to return. He&#8217;s mainly seeking back pay, but if the court sees fit to reinstate him, he&#8217;ll take the job back,&#8217; said Stephen Wallace, Hayford&#8217;s attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuscaloosa News: Ex-Stillman professor sues over dismissal TUSCALOOSA | A former Stillman College professor has sued the college over his termination two years ago, seeking back pay, punitive damages and his old job. Ekow Hayford, who taught business at Stillman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/03\/professor-sues-stillman-college-over-dismissal-for-malicious-gossip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264],"tags":[3343,4837],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","tag-stillman-college","tag-terminations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}