Stroud v. Department of Labor & Industrial Services

SWANSTROM, Judge.

Two employees of the Department of Labor and Industrial Services, appellants Jack Stroud and Frank Roeckner, were involuntarily transferred from offices in cities where they lived to offices in other cities. They challenged the transfers, claiming that the Department’s director had acted arbitrarily. The challenges were made unsuccessfully through the Department’s grievance procedure and then were presented to the Personnel Commission. The Commission’s hearing officer ruled in their favor. The full Commission, however, decided that the Commission lacked jurisdiction to hear…