By Erika L. Ritchie | OC Register
The human resources director for Newport Beach has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging the city manager asked her to change records to cover up what may have been a gift of public funds and she is now being shunned, harassed and discriminated against at work.
In the lawsuit filed late last month in Orange County Superior Court, Barbara Salvini, who has worked for the city since 2015, is seeking unspecified damages for a hostile work environment, gender and age discrimination and whistle-blowing retaliation, among other complaints, she says she has faced after asking the city to investigate what she alleges in the suit was potential wrongdoing by Grace Leung and the city’s Fire Chief Jeff Boyles with regards to leave time.
Salvini, who previously worked for a decade in a similar role for Laguna Beach, is seeking monetary damages for the emotional distress she says she has suffered, said Dennis Wagner, her attorney. She is asking for a jury trial.
“She’s fed up and has no resort but to file a suit,” he said. “The city manager has a history and pattern of targeting people who are smarter than her and wants to get them out of the system.”
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