A group of former employees is suing the Nevada Department of Veterans Services (NDVS), alleging that the agency and multiple officials engaged in retaliatory behavior and endangered the safety of residents at a state-run veterans nursing home in Southern Nevada.
The lawsuit filed earlier this year in Clark County, alleges that leaders at NDVS and at the nursing home engaged in “sham” investigations against workers that eventually led to their unlawful termination. The lawsuit also alleges that those leaders asked the employees to commit illegal activity on anything from timekeeping to the handling of controlled substances, and failed to hold officials accountable.
The lawsuit was originally filed by one ex-employee — Eli Quiñones, the former administrator of the nursing home in Boulder City — but it expanded in January to include three other ex-employees and a contractor who worked at the nursing home. It is asking for a jury trial and damages to cover lost benefits and the suffering that the plaintiffs experienced, including “mental anguish and loss of enjoyment of life.”…