Posted on 07/21/2015 10:53:44 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The state Court of Appeals has reinstated Milwaukee's 75-year-old residency rule, which requires city employees to live within city limits.
The District 1 Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Paul Van Grunsven, who in January 2014 ruled that a measure signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker applied uniformly to all local governments in the state. The state law, Van Grunsven said, removed the issue of residency from the scope of home rule authority.
The city has for decades required that its employees to live within Milwaukee limits. But the law signed by Walker in 2013 declared that no local government may require, as a condition of employment, that any employee or prospective employee reside within any jurisdictional limit.
The city in response announced that it would continue to enforce it's requirement, enacted in 1938. That prompted the Milwaukee Police Association to sue the city. It was later joined by the Milwaukee Professional Fire Fighters Association.
As agreed to in court after the police union filed suit, the city has not enforced the residency rule. Hundreds of employees are now living outside city limits.
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
What are they going to do with all the folks who now live outside the city? More “mail drop” addresses?
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this wisconsin interest ping list.
Frankly I think if they are going to be demanding more and more union benefits from the city they ought to be forced to pay taxes there.
Another judge thinking like a dictator.
Will the appeals court ruling be appealed? The article didn’t say but I would hope so. It needs to be.
Newark NJ has a residency requirement, while my town has to allow Newark residents to take police/fire tests (by “federal decree”). Rather than awarding blacks what are practically no-show jobs, though (where they would be paid just for showing up), most of the jobs given to Newark residents are going to Hispanics.
That end-run around finding a niche for the descendants of the slaves will be the death of affirmative action; blacks already want it ended for white women, and now they’ll need it ended for Hispanics as well (leaving 13% of the population squaring off against the rest).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.