A judge has ruled the University of Alaska failed to follow its own regulations and improperly fired an employee in 2008.
Superior Court Judge Michael MacDonald found that Yauna Taylor was wrongly terminated from her job as an administrative assistant at the Tanana Valley Campus Culinary Arts Department.
Taylor was given a notice of nonretention on April 3, 2008. The university later cited reasons that included "lack of professionalism," "lack of responsiveness to clear expectations" and "resistance to correction action."
Her employment was terminated without cause on four weeks' notice.
Taylor, who said she had a clean personnel record, argued she was entitled to a "for cause" termination hearing because she had been fired for disciplinary reasons. She said the nonretention procedure, which doesn't include the same due process for terminated employees, was incorrectly used.