In Re Grievance of Gage

The State of Vermont, as employer, appeals from an amended order of the Vermont Labor Relations Board, setting aside the discharge from state employment of claimant Gage and ordering back pay. Four questions were certified, all involving the meaning of the concept of “just cause” for discharge. Essentially this was the subject matter of our recent opinion in In re Grievance of Brooks, 135 Vt. 563, 382 A.2d 204 (1977). Our disposition of the instant case renders full recital of these questions unnecessary, a fortuitous result in that they were certified by a chairman of the Board whose…