Article: CSEA SAYS CIVIL SERVICE SLIGHTS TESTS BUT DEPARTMENT DENIES FAVORING TRAINING OVER COMPETITION FOR J OBS.(Local)

Byline: Richard Wexler Capitol bureau

The state Department of Civil Service is emphasizing training at the expense of testing, and that's unfair to thousands of employees holding "provisional" civil service jobs, the state's largest public employee union has charged.

But a union official was unable to back up the charge with specific examples and a Civil Service Department spokeswoman says that's because there are none.

In a letter to Civil Service Comissioner Walter Broadnax obtained by The Times Union, Joseph McDermott, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, charged that "the Department of Civil Service has made a conscious ...

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