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Ex-employee awarded full reinstatementThe Associated PressALBUQUERQUE — A cityemployee who was fired four years ago for alleged sexual harassment must be rehired and promoted, the man’s lawyer said.Carl J. Hartmann III said a ruling issued by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means Carl Jackson is in line to become a division head, deputy director or possibly director of the city Parks and Recreation Department.A district court jury found in 1987 that Jackson, who is black, was a victim of racialdiscrimination.The appeals court also upheld $240,000 in damages and attorney fees Jackson was awarded during the trial.The court’s ruling last month said Jackson must be reinstated “to the position which he would have achieved if he had not been terminated.Hartmann said that means Jackson must be hired back at a job higher than the assistant superintendent’s position he held in 1985 when he was fired for allegedly sexually harassing female employees.“At the time my client was forced out of his job, he was very close to the top of the department,” Hartmann said. Whichever of those upper level iobs the (district) court places him into, the last thing I want is for the city to say, ‘Gee, judge, we don’t have anything for him atthe moment.Mike Walker, directors of Parks and Recreation, said there are no vacancies in the department’s top ranks.“The city will do whatever it can to comply with the terms of the order, and will act in good faith,” said Assistant City Attorney Paula Forney.
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Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Sun, Dec 17, 1989
Page 43
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