In re Grievance of Bushey

The Labor Relations Board found that grievant’s separation from state service in the Department of Corrections amounted to an unjustified dismissal. To reach that result the Board ruled that the grievant’s act of resignation by letter was improperly induced and, in effect, involuntary. The Board found that there were deliberate acts by senior Department officials putting pressures on the grievant intended to produce that act of resignation. Determining that the facts of this case do not support the concept of involuntary resignation, we reverse.

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