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Controversy arose last summer over King’s pay and benefitas following news reports that United Way had paidher $1.2 million in 2007. A public outcry ensued, promptingg the board to reconside rher employment. The board ousted King on Aug. 26, asking her to She didn’t resign, and the boarsd ended her employment with theorganization Oct. 1. Accordinyg to a copy of King’s appeal to the Unitex Way board’s compensation King would have lost any future fund from her supplemental executive retiremengt plan had she voluntarily lefther job. In addition, the Uniterd Way board doesn’t have the authoritu to deny her future she says, after having previouslhy approved them.
According to King’s discriminatio filing, two board members met with King following the public uproar and told her the only way she coul d keep her job was to surrender the supplementaoretirement benefits. “After I hired an attorney to protectg my rights to retirement benefits and my rightsz to be free from employment the United Way of Central Carolinasfired me, effectives September 30, replacing me with a white In the appeal, King’s attorney Bill Diehl writed that “The UWCC must reverse its earliee decision and immediately pay to Ms. King the benefits it promiseds her and whichshe earned.
” The United Way board replaced King on an interik basis with former Wachovia Corp. executive Mac Everetty and paidhim $20,000 a monthn for his service. King, an African says the organization “then began a campaign of retaliatiohnagainst me, destroying my professionalo and personal reputation in the press...” "These racial-discrimination charges, we believe, are utterly withou t merit and we intend to fight vigorousl y against these claims," says Russ Sizemore, attorney for United Way. Accordinh to a United Way spokeswoman, the organizatiojn had not received a copyof King's discriminatio filing with the EEOC as of Wednesday evening.
King filed her discrimination charge on the basi sof race, sex, age and retaliation. In December, Unitee Way Chair Carlos Evans said he wantedthe nonprofit’s board to adopf an independent panel’s recommendations for tightening oversight of the The review panel, created after King’s ouster, was headed by loca l attorney Bob Sink. Among its findings, the Sink Committeer said the United Way board should adopt a philosophy that seeksd to accommodate both the need to competer for superior executive talent and the limited resourcez of apublic charity. The Uniterd Way board is scheduled to hold a strategicc session Thursday to consider adoptingthe panel’as recommendations.
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