{"id":7305,"date":"2011-06-02T16:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:21:04","slug":"retired-manager-hires-attorney-in-grievance-against-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Retired Manager Hires Attorney In Grievance Against School District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a longtime Hillsborough County School district employee retired. The Sentinel has learned that <strong>Henry Ballard, Jr.<\/strong>, has since retained <strong>Attorney Delano Stewart<\/strong> to represent him in preparation of filing a grievance.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed as he first Manager of the Office of Supplier Diversity, created to increase minority participation in the awarding of school contracts, in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ballard<\/strong> said, \u201cAfter reviewing a lot of documents given to me by inside sources, it appeared that there was an incredible difference as to why my position could not be reviewed prior to my retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that he was informed that there were a series of meetings about his position that did not include him. He learned the proper procedure to file a grievance weeks before his retirement and \u201cI took those actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grievance concerns his title change and pay increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a longtime Hillsborough County School district employee retired. The Sentinel has learned that Henry Ballard, Jr., has since retained Attorney Delano Stewart to represent him in preparation of filing a grievance. He was appointed as he first Manager of the Office of Supplier Diversity, created to increase minority participation in the awarding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}