A new law enacted by Governor Cuomo strikes a good balance between maintaining merit in the civil-service system while also considering basic fairness for longtime employees and the needs of their agencies by offering special exams giving them a leg up in gaining permanent status in their titles.
Once upon a time, merit-system sticklers decried the proliferation of provisional employees in city government whose appointments continued beyond the nine-month limit prescribed by the State Civil Service Law. Mayor Ed Koch soon after taking office in 1978 proclaimed that he was “shocked” there were more than 10,000 employees who had either not passed a civil-service test before being hired or had passed one but then been promoted provisionally.
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