Webb v. City of Leavenworth

Abbott, J.:

This is an employment discrimination case in which the City of Leavenworth appeals the district court’s affirmance of an award by the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights of $326.28 for lost wages and $1,000 for mental anguish to David Webb, Sr.

This case arises under the Kansas Act Against Discrimination, K.S.A. 44-1001 et seq., as a result of the interview process and employment of a street foreman in October 1978 by the City of Leavenworth.

The City posted a job vacancy notice to which eight men responded. Because of a personnel regulation which encourages promotion from within, the…