The NFL Players Association continues to generate headlines for less-than-ideal reasons.
Via Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Passan of ESPN.com, the NFLPA placed in-house counsel Heather McPhee on paid administrative leave on Tuesday, after (per the ESPN report) multiple employees filed complaints with the union’s H.R. department about her.
She allegedly failed to follow her supervisor’s direction and allegedly bullied colleagues and disrupted the union’s work environment, per the ESPN report.
The NFLPA will need to have plenty of evidence and documentation to show this move isn’t a pretext for retaliation. She was reportedly instrumental in the investigation arising from financial dealings by NFLPA officials with OneTeam Partners, and some believe she was otherwise sounding internal ala