Micron Technology Sued by Former Workers Over Firings, WSJ Says
Bloomberg News
January 6, 1999, 5:47 a.m. PT
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Micron Technology Inc.
is being sued for $7 million by two former product engineers who
allege they were fired because of company infighting, the Wall
Street Journal reported. The suit filed by James J. Stefano and
Nicholas Van Heel alleges fraud, slander, negligence and other
charges related to their dismissal, and names the company, Chief
Executive Steven Appleton, former board member Jerry M. Hess and
Robert Donnelly, a vice president. Micron said the accusations
that the workers were fired after presenting a report that showed
the company could save significant amounts of money by changing
its manufacturing and testing processes were ''factually
incorrect,'' the paper said.
Micron, one of the biggest makers of computer-memory chips,
reported a smaller-than-expected loss of $46.2 million in the
fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 3. |
