Former Ethereum Foundation employee Kayleen Fulton filed a lawsuit against the foundation, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and four others on Nov. 4 in federal court in Colorado. She alleges she was fired on April 6 after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and helping organize a staff letter. These are allegations in her complaint, not findings by the court.
Fulton says the letter, signed by 53 people, supported the foundation’s new mandate but opposed requiring employees to affirm it to keep their jobs. She alleges disability discrimination, retaliation and interference with her medical leave rights, and seeks lost pay and damages. A lawyer for the foundation’s Singapore affiliate denied unlawful conduct or retaliation in a May 14 letter quoted in the complaint. The foundation, Fulton and a colleague had not responded to requests for comment by publication.
