Brewer’s personnel plan seeks to ease firing, hiring state workers

Brewer’s personnel plan seeks to ease firing, hiring state workers (access required)

By Luige del Puerto - luige.delpuerto@azcapitoltimes.com

Published: February 8, 2012 at 4:50 pm

Gov. Jan Brewer is seeking to fundamentally alter the way state employees are hired, fired and managed.

In short, the governor wants to make it easier for administrators to hire and fire workers.

In a two-page outline of her “personnel reform” proposal, obtained by the Arizona Capitol Times today, newly hired rank-and-file employees would no longer be considered “covered,” meaning the state would strip away some protections and rights to appeal they are currently afforded.

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