Posted on 01/16/2012 3:52:13 PM PST by matt04
A Superior Court judge has ruled that state trooper layoffs ordered by Gov. Dannel Malloy last year are unconstitutional.
Last year, 56 state police troopers were laid off during the summer after they rejected part of a concessions agreement put out by Malloy's administration to deal with the state budget deficit.
All of the state police troopers got their jobs back, collected six weeks of unemployment, which was less than their pay. But they say that's not the point. They sued because they say Malloy didn't have the authority to lay them off.
It is unclear whether the state will go along with the ruling that requires the state to compensate the troopers for lost wages.
State Attorney General George Jepson said he'll carefully go over the ruling before he decides what the state should do.
My!... It must be nice to have a job that you CANNOT be laid off or fired from. Well maybe they can be fired but with a ruling like this it becomes even more difficult.
Who knows... Connecticut may end up like France where employers, (State), are afraid to hire people because they can never let them go if they do get hired.
Who gets to kick them out if not the chief of police?
So where are they going to cut the budget at then? If he doesn’t have the authority who does and what is their plan?
An act of the legislature? A referendum?
once it said budget deficit, the court should butt out.
Duh! My bad. The governor tried to cut the jobs.
This is why public sector unions are such a splendidly bad idea.
Number 1 reason it’s an inherent bribe system.
They should cut expenses on ammo for their guns and range time. Then tell the public sorry...we have to have bodies according to the court—hope they can get their one bullet out of their pocket in time to safe a life if needed—and hope they aim good. Sorry for any issues this may cause you.
Then you’ll have enough cops quit because they can’t even protect themselves. Voila—solution to the problem.
Malloy and Jepson are in the union’s pocket as is the judge(I’ll wager); this is probably a set-up to make it look like the public employees are untouchable so they are off the table for cutting costs.
Will the inevitable bankruptcy be deemed unconstitutional?
The correct answer would be to tell the Judge to GO POUND SAND, and have the Legislature REMOVE HIM FROM THE BENCH FOR BAD BEHAVIOR. The very idea that a judge believes he has the power to tell a “ State Legislature or Executive” how to do their job should be a CRIMINAL ACT.
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