Estephania Gutierrez, CSC Docket No. 2025-65
NJ Civil Service Commission decision of September 10, 2025, CSC Docket No. 2025-65: discipline, penalty upheld. Estephania Gutierrez, Keyboarding Clerk 2, Clifton, Department of Human Services, removal, effective May 23, 2024, on charges incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties, insub
Commission decisions · Meeting of September 10, 2025
Estephania Gutierrez, Keyboarding Clerk 2, Clifton, Department of Human Services, removal, effective May 23, 2024, on charges incompetency, inefficiency or failure to perform duties, insubordination, conduct unbecoming a public employee, neglect of duty and other sufficient cause.
- Matter
- Discipline
- Decided
- September 10, 2025, item A-5
- Outcome
- Penalty upheld
- ALJ's recommendation
- Uphold the removal.
- What the Commission did with it
- Adopted the ALJ's recommendation
- Penalty appealed
- removal
- Title
- KEYBOARDING CLERK 2
- Employer
- Clifton
- 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.
The decision
BackgroundThe appeal of Estephania Gutierrez, Keyboarding Clerk 2, Clifton, Department of Human Services, removal, effective May 23, 2024, on charges, was heard by Administrative Law Judge Kelly J. Kirk (ALJ), who rendered her initial decision on July 25, 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 on September 10, 2025, adopted the ALJ’s Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law and her recommendation to uphold the removal.
ORDER
The Civil Service Commission finds that the action of the appointing authority in removing the appellant was justified. The Commission therefore upholds that action and dismisses the appeal of Estephania Gutierrez.
ClosingThis is the final administrative determination in this matter. Any further review should be pursued in a judicial forum.
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