South Carolina Department of Mental Retardation v. Glenn

Chandler, Justice:

Mary Y. Glenn (Glenn) appeals a Circuit Court reversal of an order of the State Employee Grievance Committee (Committee).

We reverse.

FACTS

Glenn has been employed since 1976 as a Mental Retardation Specialist with the South Carolina Department of Mental Retardation (Department) at the Midlands Center in Columbia. She was terminated from her position based upon allegations she physically abused a patient under her care on March 5, 1983. She filed a grievance under the Department’s employee grievance plan, but was unsuccessful in refuting the allegations against her at an…