Alterman v. BAKER

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Michael P. Alterman seeks review of a decision by the State Civil Service Commission which concluded that, in promoting the petitioner from parole agent III to parole supervisor II, .the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (“board” or “appointing authority”) failed to adhere to the appointment-without-examination promotion requirements of section 501 1 and violated the anti-discrimination provision of section 905.1 2 of the Civil Service Act, as amended.

We trace the genesis of this case to 1977 when the board promoted Mr. Alterman to parole supervisor II in its…