McIntosh v. Personnel Commission

We are asked herein to review, pursuant to the standard of RSA 541:13, the ruling of the personnel commission that the plaintiff’s removal from his position as director of the office of manpower affairs was a valid layoff for reasons of economy and efficiency and not, as alleged, a retaliatory discharge inspired by political motives. For the reasons which follow herein, we affirm the commission’s finding.

On January 2, 1976, the plaintiff received a letter from James J. Barry, commissioner of the office of manpower affairs [hereinafter OMA], informing him that effective January 19, 1976, Mr.…