What the Civil Service Commission decides

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The Civil Service Commission decides appeals about New Jersey civil service jobs. Here's what it decides.

After a hearing, it makes the final decision on four kinds of appeal by permanent employees and people in their working test period: removal, certain suspensions and fines, disciplinary demotion, and being let go at the end of the working test period.

Other appeals, including many about exams, it decides on the written record.

The statute gives 20 days to appeal after you receive the employer's final written decision. Two exceptions: where the State and the employees' majority representative have agreed to binding arbitration of discipline, that's the only route. And a suspension or fine of five days or less is appealable only past set limits, such as 15 days in a calendar year. Check your notice or your union.

Our record runs from January 2019 through September 2026: 145 meetings and 4,421 matters, 4,078 of them decided.

In 448 discipline appeals where we could read the penalty, the Commission reversed it in 68 and reduced it in 88. In 292, it wasn't lowered. These are cases decided at a meeting, not your odds, since settled and withdrawn cases never get there.

To find decisions about your title, open its page on NJ Civil Service Navigator and follow the Commission link.