Rarick v. Board of County Commissioners

Appellant argues initially that, because the Raricks have been designated as unclassified, the State Personnel Board of Review did not have jurisdiction over appeals from their terminations. However, as this court stated in Yarosh v. Becane (1980), 63 Ohio St. 2d 5, in paragraph two of the syllabus:

“The State Personnel Board of Review has jurisdiction over appeals from removals of public employees if it determines that such employees are in the classified service, regardless of how they have been designated by their appointing authorities.”

As a consequence of this holding, which applies with…