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Paramedic Fired for Telling Employer That Coworker Was Drunk
A paramedic working in Philadelphia recently filed a lawsuit against her former employer, citing a violation of Pennsylvania's whistleblower act. Valerie Sakr contends that she informed her employer she believed her fellow employee, the EMT driving the ambulance in which she rode, was intoxicated. Her employer told her and the allegedly intoxicated employee to go out on the road anyway, and shortly afterwards, the EMT hit another vehicle.
Sakr believed the employee was intoxicated due to the fact that he smelled like alcohol. When the employer drug-tested the employee, his blood alcohol content was 0.07, below Pennsylvania's legal limit. Ms. Sakr, contends, however, that the employer waited four hours after her original complaint to drug-test the employee. Due to the way alcohol is metabolized in the body, this raises a strong likelihood that the employee indeed may have been drunk when he and Ms. Sakr left to begin their shift, and when he hit the other vehicle.
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