McAdams v. Barbieri

This amendment should be examined with great strictness, since its purpose was to undermine the civil service by freezing into permanent positions almost 300 persons who failed to meet the qualifications which had been demanded of those already within the system. In Howe v. Civil Service Commission, 128 Conn. 35, 38, 20 A.2d 397, we quoted with approval the following from Matter of Sheridan v. Kern, 255 App. Div. 57, 63, 5 N.Y.S.2d 336: “Any method which results in improperly placing in permanent positions those who obtain temporary employment is a reversion to the [properly] condemned spoils…