Smith v. Contreras-Sweet

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER,United States District Judge

Plaintiff CaSandra Smith was a longtime employee of the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) when in May 2013 she learned through a desk audit that she was, literally, working above her pay-grade. In response, Smith’s supervisor— relying on advice from an SBA job classification specialist—sought .to create a new position for her. However, due to a mix-up in the SBA’s Human Resources office and a subsequent hiring freeze, the position was never posted, and the SBA solved the problem instead by relieving Smith of her…