Shipe v. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles

By Judge Randall G. Johnson

Plaintiff, a state employee, filed this action pursuant to former Va. Code § 2.1-114.5:2(F) to enforce implementation of a grievance panel decision.1 At issue is whether plaintiff, who grieved her termination and was ordered reinstated by the panel, was properly assigned to a job other than the one from which she was terminated.

On March 15, 1995, plaintiff was terminated from her job as Security Supervisor, Grade 8, at the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) headquarters in Richmond. The termination notice stated that plaintiff had “repeatedly failed to be complete and…