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The personnel of the Corporation shall be included in the exempt service, as defined in Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947, as amended, known as the Personnel Act, but said personnel shall be subject to any measure that may be approved by this Legislature establishing a merit system for the employees of the Commonwealth and its instrumentalities.For the administration of this personnel, the Corporation shall adopt a system in which merit shall be the governing principle, so that the fittest may be the ones to serve it, and that every employee be selected, trained, promoted and retained in his employment in consideration of his merit and capacity for work, without discrimination by reason of race, color, sex, birth, age, origin or social condition, or political or religious ideas. The Corporation shall send a copy of its personnel system to the Legislature which may disapprove or amend it in the regular session it may hold during or immediately after receiving same. If the Legislature fails to take action in said session on the matter, the system shall be deemed approved. History —July 2, 1975, No. 145, p. 433, § 10.