Largent v. West Virginia Division of Health

(Filed Nov. 23, 1994)

I concur with the majority opinion with regard to its general conclusions that state agencies may consider a broad range of factors when setting the salary of a new employee and that employees who are performing the same tasks with the same responsibilities should be placed within the same job classification. However, there is a lack of factual development in the majority opinion and, because of that lack of factual development, I am further of the opinion that syllabus point 4 of the opinion is overly broad and unjustified. For those reasons, I dissent.

The principle of…