Thomas v. Department of Welfare

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

A classified employee appeals from a decision of the New Orleans civil service commission that reversed his dismissal but ordered him suspended without pay from the date of the reversed dismissal until the date of the commission’s decision. The employee seeks reversal of the suspension without pay or reduction of its period to the 120-day maximum that an appointing authority could have imposed. The employer by answer to the appeal seeks restoration of the dismissal.

Preliminarily we deny plaintiffs motion to dismiss the answer to the appeal as untimely. The answer was…