Jabola

Petitioner appeals from a judgment sustaining her termination as an employee of respondent agency. We reverse the judgment.

Petitioner had been employed by the agency for seven and one-half years, having been appointed as, and serving as, a principal accountant for the last two and one-half years. She applied for a raise in salary. Her raise was approved by her immediate supervisor (Mrs. Perez) and by Mr. Shepard, the executive director of the agency. Petitioner was asked to sign a “Personnel Action Form,” in which the raise was approved, but, for personal reasons refused to sign that form previously signed by her superiors. The form, a multipart, document would, in ordinary course, have been given to Ms. May, the administrative officer, after being executed by petitioner; Ms. May would then have seen that the copies were distributed to various divisions of the agency, one copy going to the payroll department, which would then process the raise for payment. In some unexplained fashion, 1 the payroll form was delivered *922 to payroll without having been signed by petitioner or routed through Ms. May. On November 30, 1979, petitioner received a pay check, which included…