Section 25-9-143 - Status of employees in merit positions and exempt positions

Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, each personnel system officer or employee in a merit position affected by this chapter shall be entitled to all rights which he possessed under the Mississippi Classification Law and under the Mississippi Coordinated Merit System Council in a merit position before February 1, 1981. All previously exempt employment positions created by separate laws are hereby included in the provisions of this chapter, except as excluded in Section 25-9-107.Laws, 1980, ch. 303, § 14, eff. 2/1/1981.