| The layoffs would also necessitate demotions to backfill lower-level positions that become vacant in the process. |
| The reports call for shifting administrators and some teachers to different positions and could result in demotions, school officials said. |
| Wallace said the department doesn't expect the layoffs, demotions and transfers to affect service, but Bader disputed that claim. |
| The demotions are the latest in a series of moves that have taken the Fitchburg Police Department from a 94-member-strong force several years ago, to 80 officers today. |
| They appealed their demotions to the Civil Service Commission, which ordered them restored as deputies. |
| Ironically, at the very end of this millennium, demotions, warnings, and anathemas have again come into vogue in several regions of our nation. |
