State ex rel. Vukovich v. Youngstown Civil Service Commission

This appeal raises the question whether a municipal civil service commission is empowered to hear appeals of employees whose pay is reduced1 as the result of a shortened work week due to economic conditions.

Municipal civil service commissions, as authorized in R. C. 124.40, exercise the powers and perform the duties prescribed and conferred upon the Director of Administrative Services and the State Personnel Board of Review, with respect to the civil service of the subject city, its school and health districts. The statute specifically provides that “[t]he procedure applicable to reductions,…