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First Name JOHN
Last Name TONEY, JR.
Decision Date 4/30/1987
Docket Number 22-87-047-1
ALJ LC
Respondent LINCOLN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
Employment Type SERV
Job Title BUS OPERATOR
Topics PERSONAL LEAVE; PAY
Primary Issues Bus Operator Physical
Outcome GRANTED
Statutes 18-29-5(b)
Related Cases 350 S.E.2D 541; 18-29-5(B)
Keywords WORKERS' COMP; SICK LEAVE; STRESS TEST; MEDICAL; ABSENCE; CARDIAC; EQUITABLE
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Synopsis Gr is sixty years of age and underwent a stress test incident to his employment. As a result of the test, grievant was ordered not to engage in active exercise or drive a school bus during the interim. Grievant was medically certified to be physically unfit for duty as a bus driver and missed twenty five days of work. Although the twenty five days qualified as sick days, because of a previous illness, gr was charged with fifteen days of remaining sick leave and the remaining 10 day were unpaid. DECISION: Grievance Granted. Hearing examiners are authorized to provide such relief as deemed fair and equitable. It is an equitable maxim that where one of two innocent parties must suffer because of the derelictions of a third party, it is the least culpable of the two innocent parties who should prevail. It was inequitable for the BOE to deplete gr sick leave reserve and to deny pay from work occasioned through no fault of grievant.

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