Heatherly v. Kemsel

Mrs. Kemsel, an employee of the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations (the employer), was given notice by the director of that department, as her appointing authority, that she would be suspended from work without pay for five days because of an incident which occurred on April 1, 1986, at or near her work place. She exercised her right to a pre-suspension hearing, which was provided to her and which resulted in the affirmance on May 8, 1986, of the five day suspension without pay, with the suspension to commence on May 12, 1986. The employee filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery…