How does state non classified employment work?

Classified positions and the employees who serve in them are subject to the provisions of
the Civil Service Rules. This means that classified employees:

Must be hired in an open, competitive manner prescribed by SCS;
Must meet statewide minimum qualification standards set by SCS;
Must be paid in accordance with the rules;
May only be disciplined (for cause) or removed after being provided due process;
and
May NOT participate in political activities related to the support of any political
candidate, party or faction at any level of government, including federal or local, as
well as state.


(c) Subject to the provisions of Sub-section (d) of this Rule, the following officers and employees of the State of Louisiana shall be in the Unclassified Service:

Elected officials and person appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices.
The head of each principal executive department appointed by the Governor.
Registrars of voters.
Members of State boards, authorities, and commissions.
One private Secretary to the president of each college or university.
One person holding a confidential position and one principal assistant or deputy to any officer, board, commission or authority mentioned in (1), (2), (3), or (4), above, except the State Department of Civil Service.
Members of the military or naval forces; including those employees in the Military Department of the State of Louisiana who are members of the Louisiana National Guard or Louisiana State Guard, either active or retired.
The teaching and professional staffs, and administrative officers of schools, colleges, and universities of the State, and bona fide students of those institutions employed by any State agency.
Employees, deputies, and officers of the legislature and of the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General; and of police juries, school boards, and assessors; and of all offices provided for in Constitutional Article V.
Commissioners of elections, watchers, and custodians and deputy custodians of voting machines.
Railroad employees whose working conditions and retirement benefits are regulated by federal agencies in accordance with federal law.
Notaries Public.
All employees of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

That would make me nervous as bad as the state is doing. To each is own I guess.