West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources/Welch Emergency Hospital v. Blankenship

This dispute concerns the civil service classification of Jeannie Blankenship who is employed by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources at Welch Emergency Hospital. Ms. Blankenship, who was classified as a computer operator II, pay grade 14, maintains that she should be classified as a data processing manager I, pay grade 22. After the Circuit Court of McDowell County upheld the level IV decision of the West Virginia Education and State Employees Grievance Board ordering Ms. Blankenship’s reclassification to a data processing manager I, with back pay from January 13, 1987,…