Michigan State Employees Ass'n v. Civil Service Commission

I respectfully dissent on the issue of contracting out.

At issue here is the constitutionality of defendants’ approval of an additional standard for allowing personal service contracts. Const 1963, art 11, § 5, does not specify under what circumstances the state may contract for services rather than having them performed by the classified civil service. It does provide that "[t]he classified state civil service shall consist of all positions in the state service [with certain specified exceptions]”. For some time, the commission has been of the view that "positions” includes, in part,…