Opinion ID: 737024
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Discriminatory hiring and promotion practices

Text: Plaintiff YOVANA GUTOWSKY holds a Bachelor of Science degree in National Resources and Business Administration. She began working for the COUNTY in PUBLIC WORKS, ROADS DIVISION, at the Tahoe Administration Building in 1982. From that time until the time she was forced to resign in May 1993, she was not given a single promotion despite consistent and outstanding performance evaluations. During this same time period, defendant COUNTY repeatedly hired numerous entry-level male employees as Equipment Operators. The COUNTY allowed these male employees, who were not college educated, to obtain Class I licenses to operate equipment during their regular working hours. .... 13 Despite plaintiff's repeated requests to obtain her Class I license, defendants, and each of them, declined to allow her to apply for a Class I license on COUNTY time, and repeatedly told plaintiff that she could not operate equipment because she was female .... 14 Throughout the 11 1/2 years plaintiff was employed with the PUBLIC WORKS ROADS DIVISION, not a single female employee was accepted as an equipment operator, full time, on a promotion track. During the entire 11 1/2 years plaintiff was employed at the ROADS DIVISION in Tahoe, not a single female employee of the ROADS DIVISION was promoted. During this same period of time, numerous male employees with lesser qualifications were promoted, advanced in their careers and offered higher paying jobs at the Auburn facility 2 The court stated: Again, assuming but not deciding that plaintiff states a claim for intentional discrimination in violation of the 14th Amendment equal protection and due process clauses, her claim is time-barred. Specifically plaintiff maintains that she was discouraged from applying for non-clerical positions as early as 1983, which discouragement continued through 1993, and that she persisted in her attempt to promote to an equipment operator during the time that Caravella was her supervisor in 1992 and 1993, and that her supervisors discussed this matter among themselves as late as, May, 1993. However, to the extent that plaintiff relies on statements made by Compton, supervisor to Caravella, that it was plaintiff's job to answer the phones, even assuming that this statement can be considered to be an act of discrimination, plaintiff has failed to demonstrate that such statements were made within the one-year period prior to the filing of the complaint. 3 Referencing Monell v. Department of Social Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 98 S.Ct. 2018, 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978)