In re D'Orazio

This case involves a Vermont Labor Relations Board decision finding that grievant was denied certain employment rights and granting him a back pay award. Grievant claims the Board improperly calculated the damages. The State on cross-appeal challenges the Board’s finding of wrongful denial of employment.

Grievant, laid off from his nonmanagement state job with the (then) Governor’s Commission on the Administration of Justice, had various Reduction in Force (RIF) rights under an agreement between the State and the Vermont State Employees’ Association. He had the right, inter alia, to replace…