Hale v. Cuyahoga Co‪.‬

Plaintiff, a black-female employee of the Cuyahoga County Welfare Department (the Department) from May 1961 until her retirement in June 1987, sued for a failure to promote her. For seventeen years, Hale had worked in the position known as Social Services Supervisor I in the Department. She was employed in the Separate Administrative Unit-Work Incentive Program division of the Department. This unit was supervised by an Administrator, the Coordinator (a Social Services Supervisor II), and the Assistant Coordinator (a Social Services Supervisor I). The unit had six supervisors (all of supervisor I classification), each of whom supervised five to six social service workers, the people who actually assisted and counseled public assistance recipients.