KAREN HARRISON, Respondent v. HEALTH NETWORK LABORATORIES LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS, AND LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK, INC., Petitioners
No. 24 MAL 2019
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT
June 27, 2019
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 27th day of June, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, rephrased for clarity, is:
Whether the
Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (“PHRA”) , including its requirement for exhaustion of remedial administrative procedures, provides the exclusive remedy for retaliation claims ostensibly brought under thePennsylvania Whistleblower Law (“Whistleblower Law”) , where the underlying basis for a Whistleblower Law retaliation claim isdiscrimination deemed to be unlawful under the PHRA .