1 document · December 05, 2019 · Civil Service Commission · The Commission declined to investigate whether Springfield Fire Department had taken appropriate steps to investigate a lieutenant’s complaints regarding concerns such as discrimination, as the Appellant is not the subject of discipline or non-selection, and it is not the agency charged with adjudicating such matters.

1 document · December 19, 2019 · Civil Service Commission · Reclassification appeal denied. The Appellant was unable to show that he performed the level distinguishing duties of a Environmental Analyst IV a majority of the time.

1 document · December 05, 2019 · Civil Service Commission · An employee of the Quincy Housing Authority with a record of aggressive and troublesome behavior toward supervisors was discharged after an unseemly altercation with the housing authority’s executive director. The commission found that the employee’s discharge was in accordance with progressive discipline principles.

1 document · December 19, 2019 · Civil Service Commission · The Commission unanimously upheld the discharge of a Lawrence police officer who abandoned a service detail, took an unauthorized leave from duty for 5-days, and threatened a superior officer while later lying to the Chief of Police about those same threats.

1 document · December 05, 2019 · Civil Service Commission · The Commission dismissed the appeal of a Boston firefighter, who was discharged for making racist comments directed at a black colleague while he was drunk and off-duty. The Commission found that the Boston Fire Department had proven that the Appellant had not been denied a fair Section 41 hearing.