Mitlyng v. Wolff

SIMONETT, Justice.

This case involves the interplay between a suspension without pay of a county employee under a collective bargaining agreement and a discharge proceeding pending at the same time against the same employee under the Veterans Preference Act. We conclude that the suspension without pay, at a time when discharge proceedings are also pending, is contrary to the Veterans Preference Act and reverse.

On November 11, 1982, appellant Gerald Mitlyng, a Wright County deputy sheriff, received two notices from his employer, the respondent County of Wright, acting by its sheriff, respondent…