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Should I file a civil service appeal?  Well, read what a New Jersey appellate court’s recent decision said, and you will probably decide the answer is yes.new-york-county-courthouse-1540991328RMS-300x200

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Mina Ekladious had nine years of experience as a firefighter and earned a certification as a Firefighter I before he was conditionally hired by the Jersey City Fire Department.  The offer was contingent upon completing the Morris County Fire Academy, which trains prospective Jersey City firefighters.  He was removed as a firefighter for failing the physical examination at the Fire Academy.  Ekladious appealed his removal to the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, which referred the case to the Office of Administrative Law for a hearing.

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council-of-state-535721__340Our employment law attorneys represent government employees in New Jersey Civil Service appeals.

One of the most criticized but least understood areas of New Jersey employment law is the Civil Service System.  Employers complain that New Jersey’s Civil Service System makes it too difficult to fire employees who are not carrying their weight.  Employees, especially prospective employees, complain that civil service makes it too difficult to obtain jobs.  However, the Civil Service System is there for an extremely important reason.

New Jersey – gasp – has a history of corruption and political patronage when it comes to awarding government jobs, and while the old civil service system helped, it did not eliminate it.  After the long reign of Frank (“I am the law”) Hague in Jersey City, New Jersey said enough is enough.  It held a constitutional convention, and the New Jersey Constitution of 1947 provided that civil service selections and appointments had to be based on merit, determined by test if possible.  This was to take politics, corruption, nepotism and favoritism out of employment decisions so that merit was the only reason employees obtained or kept their jobs.

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