Rogers said she discovered irregularities in the first-year progress report, including instances in which Peterson "improperly claimed work that was never done." Rogers also alleges that Peterson took Rogers’ own data and research, funded by a different source, and passed it off as work done under the federal grant. In October 2007, Rogers filed a whistle-blower complaint with the university… In 2008, Peterson cut Rogers’ pay by 20 percent, saying that "her work no longer fit the funding’s statutory mandate," the lawsuit states. When UC auditors discovered problems with the grant, the suit says, only Rogers’ pay was cut while other employees were "kept whole from other funding sources." … A bill on the governor’s desk by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, would give UC employees the same protection as other state employees under California’s Whistleblower Protection Act.

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by Marjie Lundstrom, The Sacramento Bee.

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