7th Circuit: FEMA Worker Failed To Show No Pay During Hearing Was Adverse Action

Mealey's (September 13, 2018, 10:49 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal employee who was paid only when responding to disasters failed to show that a denial of pay when she was required to travel to another state for a hearing on her discrimination charge was an adverse action despite reimbursement for time and expenses being granted to two supervisors who testified for the government, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 15 (Kimberly A. Moreland v. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, No. 17-3113, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22675)....