When eliminating civil service employees for solely economic reasons, a city must decide whom to lay off based solely on seniority, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. In so holding, the state high court has taken the opportunity to clarify an earlier decision, which the justices concluded a lower court misinterpreted. The case involved Elaine Sadowski, a Pittsburgh civil service employee laid off for economic reasons even though she had seniority over 150 other workers in a 200-employee department.
November 16, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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When eliminating civil service employees for solely economic reasons, a city must decide whom to lay off based solely on seniority, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
In so holding, the state high court has taken the opportunity in Sadowski v. City of Pittsburgh, PICS Case No. 99-2082 (Oct. 27, 1999) Nigro, J. (9 pages), to clarify its earlier decision in Gaul v. Philadelphia, 121 A.2d 103 (Pa. 1956), which the justices concluded the Commonwealth Court has misinterpreted.
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