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holidays,, leave of absence, vacations
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The C i v i l Service Commission is- and'sick leave and will also establish
composed of three commissioners ap procedures for appeal when an employee
pointed by the Governor and removable believes that he has been wrongfully
by the Governor only for cause and discharged. The Act has the "open
after a public hearing. The commission back door” method of dismissal of em
w iilappoint the director and his staff ployees. If the employee believes that
and administer the Act, making such he is. wrongfully discharged, he may ap
rules as may be consistant with and peal to the Commission. If the Com
necessary to carry out the provisions of mission, after a hearing, finds that the
employee was discharged for racial, re
the Act.
The state employees affected by the ligious or political reasons, the employee
A ct are referred to as classified em is reinstated, but if it finds the employee-
ployees, and include alb state employees was discharged for some other reason
except elected officials, m em b ’e.rs of it may recommend to the appointing
boards and commissions,: heads of de authority that they reins£af@<|the dis
partments, private secretaries and prin charged e m p i o y e e. The appointing
cipal assistants, court attaches, legisla authority may_. or may not follow the
tive assistants, those teaching in the Commission’s recommendation, but if
system of higher education and the the Commission recommends reinstate
deaf and blind school, physicians and ment and the employee is not reinstated,
lawyers acting in t h e i r professional then the Commission will offer the em
capacity, state police and a few other ployee . similar employment in another,
department when a vacancy occurs..
miscellaneous exceptions.
The first major problem of the com
mission under the new act is the estab
Approximately 250 thousand veter
lishment of a classification plan, pro an placements, representing more than
viding minimum requirements jfor each Jii/jOOO veteran placements a month,
position and a pay plan standardization wefe made in the federal civil service
rates of pay. A personnel officer may from January 1, 1943 to November;!,
be designated for each department to 1944, according to an announcement
cooperate with the director in carrying of the U.S.’ Civil Service Commission.
out the operation of the Act.-..
This number included 4,000 placements
| Employment, re - employment and of veterans with physical handicaps.
promotional lists .wifi be established.
Tests, some written, some written and
On January- I, the Michigan State
oral, some performance, tests only, will
retirement
system established by the
be g i v e n and when the applicants
qualify, they will be placed on eligible 1943 State legislature, began payment
lists according to ratings received. Vet of- benefits to state employees who res
erans receive the standard five and ten- tire fróm state service because of age or
point preference. Provisional, seasonal disability.
and temporary appointments are pro
vided for. Before any employee may
Out of a ttofalof 83,027 job place
acquire the status of a regular employee, ments of Veterans made by the USES’
he must serve to the satisfaction of the in October, 1944, 63,233 placements
departmentn head, a six - month trial were of World War II veterans. O f the
service period.
overall total, 12,122 of those placed
I The Gommissipn will adopt rules' and were disabled servicemen of whom Î0,-
regulations relative to hours o fw o rk , 529 were veterans of the present war.