Orage v. Commonwealth, Office of Administration

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

John L. Orage, a Department of Transportation (DOT) employe, appeals from the Office of Adminis*498tration’s (OA) Classification Review Board’s (Board) decision which, denied his reclassification request. The OA seeks to quash the appeal for lack of appellate jurisdiction.

In January 1983 Orage demanded that DOT reclassify his position from Construction Cost Specialist IV to Program Analyst V. DOT subsequently assigned Orage’s job to the Program Analyst III class. Dissatisfied with this reclassification, Orage appealed to the Bureau of Personnel of OA (Bureau) which —…