N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.1 Career service
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.1, Career service. All job titles shall be allocated to the career service, except for those job titles allocated by the Civil Service Commission to the unclassified service a Full text with 1 recorded amendment, 4 citing decisions.
Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.
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In plain language
Career service is the default and everything else is carved out of it. Every job title is allocated to the career service unless the Commission has put it in the unclassified service or, for State positions, into the Senior Executive Service. Moving a title the other way takes a public hearing first, held to take comment against the unclassified criteria. The part worth holding onto is what happens to the people already there. An incumbent with permanent status in a title that gets reallocated to the unclassified service keeps every career service right for as long as they remain in that title. Accept a different unclassified title and most of that falls away: what is left is the right to a Commission hearing on separation from government service for disciplinary reasons or because of layoff. Staying put and moving up are not the same decision here.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.1. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) All job titles shall be allocated to the career service, except for those job titles allocated by the Civil Service Commission to the unclassified service as provided in N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.3 and those positions in State service allocated by the Civil Service Commission to the Senior Executive Service as provided in N.J.A.C. 4A:3-2. #
(b) Before a title in the career service is reallocated to the unclassified service, the Civil Service Commission shall hold a public hearing to solicit comment with respect to the criteria set forth in N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.3. #
(c) When a title is reallocated from the career service to the unclassified service by the Civil Service Commission or by legislative enactment, incumbents with permanent status in the title shall retain all career service rights so long as they remain in that title. When a permanent incumbent is appointed to a different, unclassified title, the employee shall retain only those rights to a Civil Service Commission hearing available to career service employees upon separation from government service for disciplinary reasons (see N.J.A.C. 4A:2-2) or due to layoff (see N.J.A.C. 4A:8). #
Amendment history
Rule numbers, effective dates and New Jersey Register citations as published. 1 recorded change.
- AmendedR.2017 d.10048 N.J.R. 2653(a); 49 N.J.R. 1182(a)
How this rule has been applied
4 decisions have cited N.J.A.C. 4A:3-1.1. The list below is citations to those decisions, not the decisions. We have not written summaries for this section. A citation with no summary is deliberate: we do not paraphrase a decision we have not read. Nothing here is legal advice.
Civil Service Commission final determinations (4)
- In re Interim Pub. Health Recovery Div., Epidemiology & Laboratory Capacity Enhancing Detection, Dep't of Health, CSC Docket No. 2022-9362021 N.J. CSC LEXIS 523Docket 2022-936
- In re Wallace, Twp. of Willingboro, CSC Docket No. 2018-2972017 N.J. CSC LEXIS 812Docket 2018-297
- In re Ramos, Newark Housing Auth., CSC Docket No. 2011-6382015 N.J. CSC LEXIS 192Docket 2011-638
- Bourquin v. Hunterdon County Department of Planning93 N.J.A.R.2d (CSV) 32