HARRISBURG (Nov. 19) – The Civil Service Commission is violating “the spirit of the law” by not enforcing the Veterans’ Preference Program, which requires state agencies to give preference to qualified veterans applying for civil service jobs, Auditor General Jack Wagner said at a news conference Wednesday.

Wagner’s agency released an audit finding that from the three-year period ending in mid-2006, “25 state agencies filled 569 civil service employment positions without considering eligible veterans.”

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