Basinas v. State

The issue in this case is whether the State Personnel Commission (commission) has jurisdiction under sec. 230.44(1) (c), Stats. 1977, and PERS 30.10, Wis. Adm. Code (1975), over an appeal by a state of Wisconsin career executive employee from a reassignment to a job in a lower pay range when the appeal alleged that the reassignment was for “disciplinary purposes” and constituted an “improper and unreasonable exercise” of the appointing authority’s discretion. We hold that the commission does have jurisdiction and reverse and remand the case to the commission for a hearing on the merits of the…