Phillips v. Department of Revenue

Petitioner appeals from a decision of the Public Employe Relations Board (PERB)① which ruled that she was not entitled to promotion from Clerk 3 to Revenue Agent 2.②

Petitioner has been employed by respondent Department of Revenue since 1955. In March of 1974 she requested respondent to reclassify her as a Revenue Agent 2, contending that she was doing the duties of that position and that she had been denied promotion because of her sex. At about the same time petitioner filed sex discrimination charges with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…