The ruling from the WERC chairman can be appealed in court. That hearing will serve as a type of mini-trial where both Schneiter and the Department of Corrections can present evidence and call witnesses. He filed a second appeal last month and has a hearing scheduled before the commission on April 2. Schneiter appealed his firing in December but was denied.
Richard “Sam” Schneiter, a 42-year veteran of the Department of Corrections, was fired in November, records from the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission provided to The Associated Press reveal. (AP) - A Wisconsin deputy prison warden has been fired after posting Facebook memes comparing Muslim children to garbage and equating flying a gay pride rainbow flag with raising the Confederate flag. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
