Town of Brookline, 32 MCSR 37 (2019) cited by the Appellant. The Alston appeal involved the discharge of a tenured firefighter after he failed to return to work following years of suffering from multiple incidents of harassment and retaliation at the hands of his fellow firefighters and superior officers that made it impossible for him to return to duty.

Should the Appellant seek to revoke this dismissal at that time, the Commission will weigh MCADs decision appropriately while conducting further proceedings on the Appellants just-cause appeal, guided in part by the Supreme Judicial Courts framework outlined in Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021).

Should the Appellant seek to revoke this dismissal at that time, the Commission will weigh MCADs decision appropriately while conducting further proceedings on the Appellants just-cause appeal, guided in part by the Supreme Judicial Courts framework outlined in Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021).

Should the Appellant seek to revoke this dismissal at that time, the Commission will weigh MCADs decision appropriately while conducting further proceedings on the Appellants just-cause appeal, guided in part by the Supreme Judicial Courts framework outlined in Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021).

Should the Appellant seek to revoke this dismissal at that time, the Commission will weigh MCADs decision appropriately while conducting further proceedings on the Appellants just-cause appeal, guided in part by the Supreme Judicial Courts framework outlined in Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021).

See 12 also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law). Public safety officers are vested with considerable power and discretion and must be held to a high standard of conduct. See, e.g., Falmouth v. Civil Service Commn., 61 Mass. App. Ct. 796, 801 (2004), citing City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Commn, 43 Mass. App.

See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021)(analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law). That said, [i]t is not for the Commission to assume the role of super appointing agency, and to revise those employment determinations with which the Commission may disagree. Town of Burlington v. McCarthy, 60 Mass. App.

(emphasis added) See also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law).

Id; see also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law). Yet, even if the appointing authority did not meet the burden of proof for bypass on every reason given, its discretion must 13 be upheld if any reason is sufficient, standing alone, to justify the bypass. See Porter v.

See 10 also Town of Brookline v. Alston, 487 Mass. 278 (2021) (analyzing broad scope of the Commissions jurisdiction to enforce basic merit principles under civil service law).