Case Name: Robert R. BOUCHER, A. C. Wilkinson, Jules R. Gueymard, v. DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR of The State of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1965-02-23
Citations: 171 So. 2d 476
Docket Number: No. 47599
Parties: Robert R. BOUCHER, A. C. Wilkinson, Jules R. Gueymard, v. DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR of The State of Louisiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 171
Pages: 476–477

Head Matter:
247 La. 356
Robert R. BOUCHER, A. C. Wilkinson, Jules R. Gueymard, v. DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR of The State of Louisiana.
No. 47599.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Feb. 23, 1965.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The Court of Appeal, in its decree, has rendered judgment in favor of Robert R. Boucher, A. C. Wilkinson, and Mrs. Ethel Dickinson, Widow of Jules R. Gueymard, Testamentary Executrix of the Succession of Jules R. Gueymard "for back pay in accordance with law."
Applicant, F. C. Doyal, Jr., in his official' capacity as Administrator of the Division of Employment Security, Department of Labor, State of Louisiana, contends that the Civil Service Commission has the right to exercise the administrative function of determining the circumstances of reinstatement based on the circumstances pertaining in each case, and that the legislature contemplated situations wherein circumstances may justify reinstatement without pay.
W. W. McDougall, Director of Personnel of the Department of State Civil Service, has filed a petition in this cause to be made a party of record joined with applicant in his application for a writ of review under the authority of LSA-R.S. 13:3417. He contends that Civil Service Rule 13.18(b) has the effect of law and provides that an appellant consenting to a continuance of a hearing of his appeal shall not be awarded any compensation for lost time, if his appeal be finally sustained, for that portion of the time lost by reason of the continuance.
The Administrator, applicant, and the Director of Personnel, petitioner, are reserved the right (in determining the respective amounts which may be due said employees) to rtrge and apply for credit and set-off of all wages and salaries earned by the employees in private employment in the period of separation. LSA-R.S. 49:113, Higgins v. Louisiana State Penitentiary, Dept. of Institutions, 245 La. 1009, 162 So.2d 343, and to invoke and urge Civil Service Rule No. 13.18(b).
In all other respects, on the facts found and since there appears no error of law in the Court of Appeal judgment, the application is denied.