Michigan Coalition of State Employee Unions v. State of Michigan

Our Constitution provides that the Civil Service Commission has plenary authority to “regulate all conditions of employment.” Const 1963, art 11, § 5. The majority concludes that the 2011 amendments to the State Employees’ Retirement Act (SERA), MCL 38.1 et seq., do not infringe the commission’s constitutional grant of authority where the commission has previously acquiesced to SERA. Put simply, the majority holds that to reject only those amendments found in 2011 PA 264, and not SERA in its entirety, would constitute a line-item veto on the part of the commission and that the separation of…