New jersey state jobs civil service

New Jersey’s government employees provide a wide range of services without which the public could not survive. These range from law enforcement to firefighting, mass transit, garbage removal, building and maintaining roads, ensuring the safety of buildings, protecting the civil rights of New Jersey’s citizens, protecting the environment, traffic safety, urban planning, parks, agriculture, guarding inmates, the list goes on – in short, they affect virtually every aspect of our lives.

Our employment attorneys regularly represent New Jersey civil servants defending themselves against discipline imposed their governmental employers.

This is a brief overview of discipline and appeals procedures under New Jersey’s Civil Service System.

Background

New Jersey’s Constitution of 1947 lays the legal foundation for New Jersey’s Civil Service System, requiring that employment decisions be based on merit – in fact, the New Je