Justice Denied
Journey of an Immigrant Scientist
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This is a story about an Asian American scientist’s struggle to gain equality in the workplace, but at the end she was retaliated for standing up for her right and dismissed from her job under the guise of budget cuts. This is also a story about a government agency that spent more than six month designing an elaborate web of deceptive scheme to eliminate its then first and the only woman Ph.D. scientist at the research center. The elaborate web was so well woven that it had even fooled Federal EEOC’s examiner and reviewer, and Merit System Protection Board. But fortunately it could not fool the District Court judge who ruled in her favor. However, the Appellate Court was so sympathetic to the government agency that refused to remand the case back to lower court for further fact finding. In fact the Appellate Court had usurped trial court’s authority to issue its own decision. So, if you think the judges are all impartial, think again before you file your lawsuit.
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Potential whistle-blower bewares. Whistling blowing act might lead to career suicide. So think carefully before you plunge into action, because ultimately the price you have to pay is your dismissal. Government agency apparently is rarely prepared to admit mistakes or attend to the views expressed by their workers. In fact, more often than not, they would rather deny the charges from workers and continue to not respond to it or even lie about it. Government agency often issues its policy statement encouraging its employees to freely express their view without fear of recrimination or retributions. But be careful before you take the bait, which I did. Employees should know that there is also an unwritten policy, which is to harass or retaliate against people critical of or who disagree with any action taken by the agency. These people are labeled “troublemakers” and will eventually be terminated. Remember government rarely practices what it preaches, period. Government will often spend an enormous amount of time and resources to orchestrate the removal of the so-called “whistle blowers”, a.k.a. troublemakers. These whistle blowers are often persecuted for the only crime they committed which is to tell the truth, and would ultimately be dismissed from their jobs. My advice to the would-be whistle blower is this: do not blow the whistle unless you are prepared to lose everything. It is better to remain silence than to speak out to lose your job.
About the Author
Christina Liao was born in Taiwan who came to the U.S. for graduate study. She attended Michigan State University and North Carolina State University where she received her Ph.D. degree in 1971. She was the recipient of the Canadian National Research Council Postdoctorate Fellowship affiliated with Canada Center for Inland Water in Burlington, Ontario from May 1972 through 1974. She spent an additional three years at the Center as a visiting scientist and as a consultant to a research team investigating nitrogen cycling pathways in lake ecosystems.. In July 1977, she joined the staff as Research Chemist in Soils and Fertilizer Research Branch at then the National Fertilizer Development Center, which was managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. While at work, she was subjected to many blatant employment discriminations, which she aired openly hoping the management would get the message. Unfortunately she was retaliated for standing up for her right and was rewarded with dismissal. She then spent nearly a decade of her time fighting for her basic right, the right to work to no avail because the legal system failed her.