Database Search Result Details

First Name DREMA
Last Name BATES
Decision Date 11/26/1986
Docket Number 23-86-317-1
ALJ LC
Respondent LOGAN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
Employment Type SERV
Job Title AIDE
Topics SELECTION; VACANCY
Primary Issues TESTING OUT-OF-CLASS APPLICANTS, SELECTION, SKILLS
Outcome DENIED
Statutes 18A-4-8b(b); 5300(7)
Related Cases JONES
Keywords UNWRITTEN POLICY, SELECTION, COMPETENCY TESTING
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Synopsis The Respondent required Grievant, an aide, to take a competency test to qualify for a secretarial position. She did not pass the test and a substitute secretary was hired to fill the vacancy. She challenged the use of tests. The case contains a conclusion of law that present regular employees must be given first choice over others, see Jones v. Ohio CB, but found the use of a competency test permissible. The test, however, must be fair and uniformly applied. The case notes that the contention that unwritten policies or practices are unenforceable was rejected in Hammond v. Logan CB which decision was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Kanawha.

Back to Results Search Again