Parks v. Department of Youth Services

ALMON, Justice.

The dispute from which this appeal arises concerns the legislative provisions under which the plaintiff class, academic and vocational instructors with the Department of Youth Services, are to be paid. The trial court held that they are to be paid pursuant to the statutes governing teachers and not those governing merit system employees.

Mary Parks and Arthur Jones filed this action on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated certified academic and vocational instructors in the Department of Youth Services (DYS). They claimed that they were entitled to a 16% raise…