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First Name Alex
Last Name Conner, et al.
Decision Date 3/6/2018
Docket Number 2017-2292-CONS
ALJ LRB
Respondent Division of Highways
Employment Type STATE
Job Title Transportation Workers
Topics Dismissed; Create New Position
Primary Issues Whether this Grievance Board can order Respondent to create a permeant TW3 position as demanded by the Grievants.
Outcome Dismissed; Remedy Wholly Unavailable
Statutes W. Va. Code ' 6C-2-2(i); 156 C.S.R. 1 ' 6.11 (2008)
Related Cases Skaff v. Pridemore, 200 W. Va. 700, 490 S.E.2d 787 (1997); Lusher, et al. v. Dep't of Transportation, Div. of Highways, Docket No. 05-DOH-157 (June 15, 2015); Princeton Community Hosp. v. State Health Planning & Dev. Agency, 174 W. Va. 558, 328 S.E.2d 164 (1985); W. Va. Dep't of Health v. Blankenship, 189 W. Va. 342, 431 S.E.2d 681 (1993)
Keywords Motion to Dismiss; Create a New Position; Equipment Operation; Classification; Temporary Upgrade; Relief; Arbitrary and Capricious; Remedy Wholly Unavailable
Intermediate Court of Appeals
Circuit Court Grievant Conner CA #18-AA-197 and Grievant Myers CA #18-AA-196 appealed to Kanawha County Circuit Court 4/6/18 (Kaufman); Affirmed, 9/10/2018
Supreme Court
Synopsis Grievants are demanding that Respondent create a permanent Transportation Worker 3 position for the exclusive operation of a piece of heavy equipment known as a boom mower. Respondent has deemed the position unnecessary. Grievants have not identified the violation of an applicable rule, policy, procedure, statute, or regulation. This Grievance Board has little to no authority to require an agency to adopt a policy or to make a specific change in a policy, absent some law, rule or regulation which mandates such a policy be developed or changed.

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