RSA 282-A:115 Personnel.

I. The commissioner of the department of employment security is authorized to employ all the necessary officers, accountants, clerks, agents, investigators, auditors and other persons necessary for the proper administration of this chapter and, under a classification plan, to fix the amount of their compensation according to the responsibility and difficulty of the work, quality and length of service, and other relevant factors, and to take such action as he deems necessary and appropriate to enable department personnel to participate in a plan similar to the government-wide service benefit plan.
II. Selection, retention and promotion of personnel, excepting those positions which by federal law need not be under a merit system of personnel administration, shall be on the basis