Commonwealth, Department of Labor & Industry v. Krewson

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

In these consolidated appeals, the Department of Labor and Industry (Department) challenges an order of the State Civil Service Commission (Commission) which found the respondents’1 furloughs2 to be invalid and which ordered reinstatement.

The respondents argued, inter alia, that their furloughs were invalid because the notice of furlough which each respondent received was undertaken by someone (a personnel director) who was not the Secretary of the Department without any reference to any authority to act on the Secretary’s behalf.3 See Vaughan v. Department of Education,…