Opinion ID: 688748
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Lobbyists' Promotions

Text: 13 On November 1, 1991, three days after the announcement of plaintiff's lateral transfer (without a raise) to become Director of Operations Analysis, two lobbyists in the Central Region, Blackwell and Anderson, were promoted from salary grade 10 (SG 10), plaintiff's grade, to SG 11. Blackwell was given an SG 11 for his vital services in Illinois, his federal procurement accomplishments for AT & T, his achievements in improving marketing in all of Cook County, and his liaison with the Congressional Black Caucus. Anderson was promoted on the basis of being the lone AT & T operator in Michigan, what AT & T called the most politically contentious state, and for legislative successes in retiree health care. 14 Earlier, in June, 1991, another Central Region lobbyist, Doty, had been given a promotion to SG 11 through SGA's flex plan because of work deemed very important with the Illinois and Wisconsin federal delegations and in connection with critical telecommunications legislation. And over two years earlier a regional attorney in the Western Region, Kindrick, who had been assigned dominant lobbying duties in Hawaii and the direct supervision of lobbyists in Sacramento and San Francisco, was, through a management job evaluation, 1 designated regional attorney and state director, and elevated to SG 11. 15 Plaintiff became convinced that defendants were discriminating against her, filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and brought this action.