VERGENNES — A jury has ordered the company that operates the Northlands Job Corps federally funded job training center in Vergennes to pay a former employee $3.2 million for firing him after he complained about alleged safety violations there.Two things happened to Thomas Cole, then a residential counselor at Northlands, when he went to work on Monday, July 23, 2018.First, Cole recounts in legal papers, a colleague came to work sick and was told by her supervisor to find a replacement before she went home. … (read more)
