For a man who spent 14 years in public service as mayor of Charlotte, Pat McCrory brought an oddly skeptical attitude toward public employees when he became governor.
In his first State of the State speech in 2013, he said, “We want to reward our talented state employees, but seat-warmers must be a thing of the past.”
On May 18, 2017 Administrative Law Judge Julian Mann, III sent notice to me and NC Assistant AG Joseph Finarelli a 'Notice of Contested Case and Assignment'.
This was in response to my request to have a hearing to contest that I was improperly reclassified by Governor McCrory as 'managerial exempt' even though I managed no people, no programs, never met anyone from the McCrory administration, and, after I was fired, the McCrory administration did not ask me to turn over a single file or document.
In 2012 I was a low level state employee who had earned a vested right to a hearing in the Office of Administrative Hearings (“OAH”) to contest whether or not my position had been appropriately reclassified as exempt from the State Personnel Act by any Governor who might be elected in the future.
In 2013 the General Assembly tried to take that vested right to a hearing away from me and 1,199 other state employees.
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From: Joe Vincoli
Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: DOL
To: "Bell, Nick (Tillis)"
Nick,
Thanks for the note and for its tenor.
I appreciate your efforts.
Joe
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Bell, Nick (Tillis) wrote:
Dear Joe,
I reached back out to DOL last week and am waiting to hear back. Feel free to continue to bug me. Things are crazy busy right now, so a reminder now and again is good. Thanks.
Ruling blocks Clemmons man from learning reasons for firing in whistle-blower case
By Richard Craver Winston-Salem Journal 1 hr ago (0)
An administrative law judge has ruled that a Clemmons man does not have the right to have a hearing to learn the reasons behind his firing from a state job in 2013.
Judge Randolph Ward’s ruling last week covers the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, or OAH, which is where the legal case of Joseph Vincoli against the N.C. Department of Public Safety would have been handled.
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