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Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I’m curious what the lawyers here think. Since Peters was able to negotiate his “resignation”, what do you think he got out of that? I'm assuming he got a settlement payment

Generally when coaches are “fired”, they are simply relieved of their duties and remain under contract and are paid as before. No cause is required as their employment contract essentially remains in effect. True, though if they get a new job, they may have mitigated and don't get as much. You'd need to see the contract and the terms.

In this case, presumably Flames no longer wanted Peters under contract with the organization so his contract was terminated. Did they pay him what he was due in a lump sum? If they paid him what he was due, where was his leverage? Did the Flames want to pay him less than he was due, thereby giving Peters something to negotiate? I would speculate there was negotiation involving the Flames saying they had cause to fire, Peters saying they didn't and them landing somewhere between, and Peters getting the "dignity" of a resignation. As to lump sum versus some sort of structured payments, that's up to them to negotiate.

Also Treliving was very careful not to say anything about Peters at all. Presumably Peters was able to at least threaten that any negative statement about him whatsoever would be considered slanderous as all he had admitted to was the one instance of using a racial slur. Maybe. I would think it more probable that Peters tool less money in exchange for a Flames promise to keep the comments about him to a minimum. I doubt Treliving would be too concerned about slander in this situation. Anything he said would be his opinion about the admitted conduct, which isn't slander. It would only be slander if he lied about Peters publicly.

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