Bunch v. Personnel Board, Commonwealth of Kentucky

REVERSING AND REMANDING WITH DIRECTIONS

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court upholding a state employee’s discharge from his position as a cook at Lake Cumberland State Park.

The appellant was employed as a cook in the kitchen at the Lake Cumberland State Resort Park. The employees at the state parks are divided into three categories— seasonal, permanent part-time and permanent full-time. A seasonal worker in general works only during the summer and is then laid off. The appellant began working as a seasonal cook in 1973.

In April of 1980, the appellant…