The general purpose of this chapter is to establish for the state a system of personnel administration based on merit principles and scientific methods governing the appointment, promotion, transfer, layoff, recruitment, retention, classification and pay plan, removal, discipline, training and career development, and welfare of its civil employees, and other incidents of state employment. All appointments and promotions to positions, and retention therein, in the state service, shall be made on the basis of policies hereinafter specified.
RCW 41.06.010
Declaration of purpose.
Applied in 37 court decisions — leading case Reninger v. State Dept. of Corrections (1998)
Most recently applied in Seattle Police Officers Guild v. City of Seattle (June 2004)
1980 c 118 s 1; 1961 c 1 s 1 (Initiative Measure No. 207, approved November 8, 1960).
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.