PUBLIC SERVICE APPEALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2130, 23 April 1914, Page 8

PUBLIC SERVICE APPEALS

LAW TO BE TESTED. Tbo Public. Servrco Asjeeia'ioo. !»s decided te seek a declaratory jadgmcat of thfi. Supreme Court in reteftnee to the right of appsal froui !:!ic dtcision of the Public Service Commissioner enjoyed by public servants under the I'ubiic Service Act. Tho priucipal question at slaico ap> pt-ars to bo the vifiht of ah efficor to ap, p«al to tbo Pubiic Service Board of' Appeal against his non-promotion it-hen "a fellwv officer has becM promoted instead The official orgau of the Public Scrvjr* A&ociation , eoniciuls that; "It is idle to suppose til at the Legislature intended to Sive au officer a right, of .'tppcul oh a matter of a £\Q incro.ass aud (isnj , him tu-e rigbt of appeal on the question of now. 'promotion affecting bia whole future offi■cial career." ; Intprviewed ™ this $übjf.ct in FebrUßrv I last, Mr. A. P. Thomson (Assistant Public.Service Commissioner) said (hat the .■interpretation of tho position upon which ■flio Commissions waF Trnvkiuc was that an,officer had no right of dnpml asahist not gfl'ttiiijr a position to which ajicthoinfiicer had been itppointcd. In takinsr this view , the vrns procev-d----itjf? MfK>n an opinion obtainfd from the fro-licitof-Gencral, which made; it oloax tbnt f:h« .dfciik* nf tho Coiuiviks'-tßri' in rp. j Bnrtl' to' appointments was final. Any i oilier view of th" jnattcr.. J!r. Tlmmsnii Tnmarked, woeM l>n umvm-kuMc. l"or in- I rf'nnw. ho asked, if tile Aopcal Board ckciiifJ that mi officer Itnd -ii>ipro))orly annointsd t« ii position, and that *omi» other mail slinnltl bnvc Wcti n)>pnint«<l inslead, wpre thrt.v {.'niui? to turn out iite mm that t.h" Cmiimis i «ionor Iwd apnoiivp'l ali'l put thfl .sKcffssfttl nppolnnt w his plnr-P? On top of thnt :motlu<r officer mielit come n\m\i with fKo saiiw ntaim in rnsarfi U> t'lc'wtonii oWcor npn.->isjlcd -is *lio lallcr had r.n'sod in yegtnil to tlio flvsf 'fccnpaiil. nf tlio pojilion. TI: *-ould thus bo imirassiblo !:o reach , any BuaJitj.