Employment Discrimination or Poor Performance?

This critical incident is about Abdullah Sall, a Muslim immigrant from West Africa who was fired from his job as an administrative assistant with the Chittenden County State’s Attorney’s office in Burlington, Vermont. While State’s Attorney Sarah George suggested Sall was terminated because of poor performance, Sall claimed it was because of his race and religion. Sall, in the middle of an independent campaign for a seat on Burlington’s part-time City Council at the time of his firing, had to decide whether to pursue a legal claim of employment discrimination against his former boss, State’s Attorney Sarah George.