Green v. Lang

The petitioners are in the competitive class of the civil service of the City of New York. After a series of promotion examinations they had, through a period of years before 1954, reached the level of Bule X, Clerk, Grade 5, a class without a maximum salary. This was the highest clerical position in the city competitive civil service.

*441A Career and Salary Plan authorized by the Board of Estimate in 1954 provided for a broad reclassification of positions in the city’s civil service. Implementing this reclassification the City Civil Service Commission by resolution on August 17, 1955 abolished,…