{"id":19656,"date":"2025-10-30T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19656\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:39:10","slug":"former-hr-director-sues-city-of-allentown-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19656\/","title":{"rendered":"Former HR director sues City of Allentown | State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Allentown&#8217;s former human resources director is suing the city.<\/p>\n<p>Nadeem Shahzad alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that he was forced out of his position in 2023 after he refused to fire an employee that Mayor Matt Tuerk had asked him to terminate.<\/p>\n<p>Shahzad maintains that employee had brought up issues of racial discrimination and should not have been fired.<\/p>\n<p>Shahzad&#8217;s suit claims he was the victim of illegal retaliation and discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; Allentown&#8217;s former human resources director is suing the city. Nadeem Shahzad alleges in a lawsuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,5177,4059,5183,4056,4027,2971,28,5178,4057,4060,4058],"class_list":["post-19656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-american-politicians-of-caribbean-descent","tag-hispanic-and-latino-american-mayors","tag-hispanic-and-latino-american-politicians","tag-local-politicians","tag-matthew-tuerk","tag-mayors-of-allentown","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-democratic-party","tag-people-from-allentown","tag-politicians-from-allentown","tag-politicians-from-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}