MORGANTOWN – The City of Morgantown and members of its fire department have resolved issues related to shift differential pay that led to a lawsuit and a potential civil service commission hearing.
The city and 47 members of the International Association of Firefighters Local 313 jointly announced the resolution in a statement May 7. The agreement is contingent on Morgantown City Council approving the terms, but both parties say they anticipate that approval. The City of Morgantown and certain individual firefighters, who are members of IAFF 313, jointly announce that they have mutually resolved the firefighters claim that they were entitled to shift differential pay under the Personnel Rules of the CIty of Morgantown, the statement notes. No other details of the resolution are available, and attorney Teresa Toriseva declined further comment on behalf of the firefighters.
MORGANTOWN – The City of Morgantown wants a circuit judge to stop a hearing regarding its decision to stop paying shift differential pay to firefighters.
The city filed the complaint against its Fire Civil Service Commission this week in Monongalia Circuit Court. The city maintains that the commission doesn’t have the authority to conduct a hearing on the issue, saying it would take control of personnel issues away from city officials.
The firefighters disagree. Toriseva
“The City of Morgantown has now sued one of its own commissions,” attorney Teresa Toriseva told
The West Virginia Record. “It has filed suit against the Fire Fighter Civil Service Commission to stop the commission from holding a hearing about the illegal and retaliatory $2,000 per year pay cut against 47 professional firefighters.”
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MORGANTOWN – An employee of the Morgantown Police Department has sued the city, saying it released a file detailing a sexual harassment incident in which she was the victim that later was posted online.
The plaintiff, only identified as H.M., filed her complaint April 7 in Monongalia Circuit Court against the City of Morgantown. She says she has worked for the city for 13 years. The sexual harassment incident occurred in 2016.
“Our client, who remains a city of Morgantown employee, was satisfied with the handling of the incident by the Morgantown Police Department,” attorney Teresa Toriseva told
The West Virginia Record. “She had put the original incident behind her and was grateful for how it was handled within her department.
Jackie Lee Spencer (left) and John Carr III | Courtesy photo
MORGANTOWN – A circuit judge has denied the Catholic Church’s motion to dismiss a case in which two 78-year-old men who say they were switched at birth by staff at a Catholic hospital.
John William Carr III and Jackie Lee Spencer originally filed their lawsuit June 5 against the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in Monongalia Circuit Court. Joining them as plaintiffs are wives Bonnie Lynn Carr and Phyllis Ann Spencer as well as adopted son Zackery Stealth Carr.
On March 1, Monongalia Circuit Judge Phillip Gaujot issued his order denying the Motion to Dismiss filed last July. The Diocese alleged, among other things, the statute of limitations had expired in the case.