Christopher Turner, CSC Docket No. 2025-224
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of March 19, 2025, CSC Docket No. 2025-224: discipline, granted. Christopher Turner, Repairer, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, resignation not in good standing, effective April 24, 2024, on charges of job abandonment.
Commission decisions · Meeting of March 19, 2025
Christopher Turner, Repairer, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, resignation not in good standing, effective April 24, 2024, on charges of job abandonment.
- Matter
- Discipline
- Decided
- March 19, 2025, item A-7
- Outcome
- Granted
- ALJ's recommendation
- Grant the appointing authority’s motion for summary decision and uphold the resignation not in good standing.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Penalty appealed
- resignation not in good standing
- Recorded vote
- Allison Chris Myers (Yes), Dolores Gorczyca (Recused), Daniel O’Mullan (Yes), Diomedes Tsitouras (Yes), Christina Mongon (Yes)
- Title
- REPAIRER
- Chair at the time
- Allison Chris Myers, Acting Chairperson
- Official decision
- CSC's PDF
Action recorded in the minutes: The Civil Service Commission affirmed the recommendation of the Administrative Law Judge.
Rules this decision applies
The decision
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BackgroundThe appeal of Christopher Turner, Repairer, Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, resignation not in good standing, effective April 24, 2024, on charges, was before Administrative Law Judge Joann LaSala Candido. (ALJ), who rendered her initial summary decision on February 20, 2025. No exceptions were filed.
AnalysisHaving considered the record and the ALJ’s initial decision, and having made an independent evaluation of the record, the Civil Service Commission (Commission), at its meeting of March 19, 2025, accepted the recommendation to grant the appointing authority's motion to for summary decision and uphold the removal as contained in the attached ALJ’s initial decision.
The Commission notes the following. There is no requirement that an employee be provided with leave for incarceration. See N.J.A.C. 4A:6-1.1, et seq. See also, In the Matter of Vincent Greenfield, Docket No. A-0713-07T1 (App. Div. February 19, 2009); In the Matter of Paul Bishop, Docket No. A-6222-06T1 (App. Div. January 8, 2009); John Harold Clark v. New Jersey Department of Transportation, Docket No. A-3321-97T2) (App. Div. March 10, 1999); In the Matter of Louis March (MSB, decided December 15, 2004); In the Matter of Lester Smith (MSB, decided October 14, 1998).
ORDER
The Civil Service Commission finds that the action of the appointing authority in resigning the appellant not in good standing was justified. The Commission therefore upholds that action and dismisses the appeal of Christopher Turner.
ClosingThis is the final administrative determination in this matter. Any further review should be pursued in a judicial forum.
Decisions this one cites
- In the Matter of Vincent Greenfield Docket No. A-0713-07T1 (February 19, 2009)
- In the Matter of Paul Bishop Docket No. A-6222-06T1 (January 8, 2009)
- In the Matter of Louis March (December 15, 2004)
- In the Matter of Lester Smith (October 14, 1998)
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