Bates v. City of St. Louis

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendant City of St. Louis appeals from a circuit court order that directs it to reinstate plaintiff Faye Bates as a tenured city employee with back pay.1 We affirm.

On January 25, 1979, defendant hired plaintiff as a clerk typist and assigned her to the Traffic Violations Bureau of the Department of City Courts. Plaintiffs duties included answering the telephone, writing bonds, cashiering, and entering traffic violations data into a computer bank. The latter task required proficiency on a cathode ray terminal (CBT), which is a data processing machine with a typewriter…