Pennsylvania Social Services Union, Local 668 ex rel. Baker v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare, Office of Inspector General

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Before this court are preliminary objections to the Amended Petition for Review filed by the Pennsylvania Social Services Union (Union), wherein the Union seeks declaratory, mandamus and injunctive relief against the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the State Civil Service Commission (Commission) (collectively, Respondents) in connection with the transfer of welfare fraud control responsibility from DPW to the OIG and the resulting loss of civil service classification for the transferred positions.

In July 1994, the…