HuffPo: “The North Carolina Democratic Party moved up the termination date of an employee who alleged in a formal complaint that a female supervisor had punished him for a sexual relationship they’d had, according to the text of the complaint and three people with knowledge of how it was handled.
The NCDP offered the worker a severance agreement in exchange for his silence about the agreement’s terms, according to the three people familiar with the situation who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The three sources also said they had no knowledge of any investigation into the complaint but that if one did occur, it was conducted in less than four days, given the date the severance agreement took effect.
The male employee’s contract originally expired on Dec. 15, but the NCDP moved up his end-work date to Dec. 6 — cutting short his work period by a week — and paid him through the end of January.”