Haugland v. North Dakota Employment Security Bureau

KNUDSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Burleigh County af firming the decision of the North Dakota Merit System Council [hereinafter Council] denying the petition of Erling Haug-land [hereinafter Haugland] that he be reclassified as an Information Specialist II and that he receive the pay of that classification retroactively from the beginning of his employment with the North Dakota Employment Security Bureau [hereinafter Bureau].

In December of 1970 Haugland applied to the Council for the position of Interviewer II with the Bureau. He passed the merit…