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.
MORGANTOWN – The City of Morgantown wants a circuit judge to stop a hearing regarding its decision to stop paying shift differential pay to firefighters.
CHARLESTON — The state Supreme Court has ruled a senior status circuit judge was correct in granting summary judgment to the state by rejecting an appeal from five state employees who claimed they were shortchanged by a payroll cycle change.
Any bill seeking to exclude or discriminate has no place here, and I urge Gov. Jim Justice to reconsider this bill and to remember the children and young adults it targets.
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.
MORGANTOWN – Fifty-one Morgantown firefighters have filed a demand with the city’s civil service commission seeking a mandatory public hearing about a $2,000 annual reduction in pay.
CHARLESTON – The state Supreme Court will decide whether to remand a case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay.
NEW CUMBERLAND – A circuit judge has consolidated eight cases in two Northern Panhandle counties regarding sexual abuse claims against the Catholic Church.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has advised Morgantown leaders again that his office believes the city’s proposed police reform ordinance would violate state law.
NEW CUMBERLAND – A circuit judge has denied a motion by the Catholic Church to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Weirton man who claims he was sexually abused as a child by a priest.
MORGANTOWN – An attorney representing the Mon-Preston Fraternal Order of Police has sent a letter to Morgantown city officials warning of a legal challenge if City Council passes an ordinance creating a Citizens’ Police Review Board.
WELLSBURG – A day after a petition was filed to force the state insurance commissioner to open a workers’ compensation claim for a Weirton firefighter who contracted COVID-19 on the job, Encova Insurance says it will cover the claim.
WELLSBURG – The family of a Weirton firefighter in the hospital fighting for his life after contracting COVID-19 while on the job wants the state insurance commissioner to open, investigate and decide a workers’ comp claim.
CHARLESTON – A case involving state employees who claim they were shortchanged when the state switched from twice monthly to biweekly pay will be heard by the state Supreme Court.
MARTINSBURG – A Berkeley County judge has denied the City of Martinsburg’s request to alert or amend an earlier order regarding pay for its firefighters.
