Bradford v. Department of Hospitals

BAILES, Judge.

This is an appeal by Elsie M. Bradford from the adverse ruling of the State Civil Service Commission upholding her dismissal from her permanent position as Nursing Aide II at the Huey P. Long Charity Hospital in Pineville, Louisiana.

In our consideration of this appeal, we find it necessary to discuss only the following assignment of error:

“By upholding the constitutionality and legality of Civil Service Rule 12.10 which reads as follows: ‘(a) An employee absent from duty because of illness or disabling injury who has exhausted all sick leave may be removed by his appointing…