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First Name PATRICIA
Last Name WOLFE
Decision Date 7/28/1989
Docket Number T-88-011
ALJ DC
Respondent DEPARTMENT OF TAX AND REVENUE
Employment Type STATE
Job Title LEAD WORKER
Topics SELECTION
Primary Issues Misclassification; Back Pay; Timeliness
Outcome DENIED
Statutes 29-6A-11
Related Cases AFSCME IV; EPLING V. HEALTH
Keywords
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Synopsis GRIEVANT APPLIED FOR A PROMOTION IN JANUARY 1988 AND WAS TOLD SHE DID NOT QUALIFY. IN JULY 1988, SHE BECAME AWARE OF A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSION OF THE VACANCY NOTICE FOR THE JOB TO WHICH SHE HAD SOUGHT PROMOTION; THIS VERSION, IN HER VIEW, SHOWED HER TO BE QUALIFIED. SHE ALSO CLAIMED MISCLASSIFICATION DUE TO HER SUPERVISOR'S EXTENDED ILLNESS AND GRIEVANT'S ASSUMPTION OF MANY OF HER DUTIES. GRIEVANT WAS 'LEAD WORKER' IN HER UNIT. DECISION: DENIED. AS TO THE APPLICATION, HER GRIEVANCE AROSE IN JANUARY 1988, AND THIS GRIEVANCE BOARD IS WITHOUT JURISDICTION OVER IT PER W.VA. CODE 29-6A-11. AS TO THE MISCLASSIFICATION, GRIEVANT DID NOT PERFORM ALL HER SUPERVISOR'S DUTIES AND ADMITTED THAT, AS LEAD WORKER, IT WAS HER JOB RESPONSIBILITY TO FILL IN FOR HER SUPERVISOR AS NEEDED.

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