OSBORNE v. W.V.A. HUMAN RIGHTS COM'N

No. 19838.

402 S.E.2d 253 (1991)

Retha A. OSBORNE v. The WEST VIRGINIA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION and Advance/Gregg Security.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

February 7, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Baker, Joseph Barbieri, Appalachian Research & Defense Fund, Inc., Beckley, Gloria M. Stephens, Welch, for Retha A. Osborne.

Daniel L. Stickler, Jackson & Kelly, Charleston, for Advance/Gregg Sec.


NEELY, Justice:

Ms. Retha Osborne was a dispatcher for Advance/Gregg Security (hereinafter "Advance") from 24 October 1984 to 7 August 1987. Advance provides security for U.S. Steel Mining Co.'s mining operation at Gary, West Virginia. Ms. Osborne has complained of sex discrimination in her place of employment. Advance customarily hired men as guards and women as dispatchers. It appears that while dispatchers were promoted only within the dispatcher unit, sometimes...

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