Sorry, meant to reply to the person above you.

Even if he were fired rather than not renewed, they could easily obscure the real reasons with ones that aren’t illegal, and it would fall on them to prove that it was actually for illegal reasons, which is quite hard to do.

That’s going a bit far. I was thinking they both sounded incredibly foolish and short-sighted, but to call him horrible is cruel and unjustified, especially since this article is literally all you know about him.